Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.
I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.
I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.
If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.
I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.
I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.
When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.
I realize that you have to show up for your life.
I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'
You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
