Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

The military is already sexually integrated.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.