It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

An insecure person will attempt to make you think that your strengths are weaknesses so that you can also feel insecure.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.