My career's consisted of all of those things that you hope would one day lead to being a series regular, and then your dreams grow from there. My career has been very steady, and I've been blessed in that I've been given everything that I can handle, at the right time.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

When there has been a problem in your marriage, you cannot forever go on thinking, 'I am the most terrible person in the world and he is the most wonderful person.' You cannot live in a marriage that is unequal, because after a while, you are just worn out.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.

For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.

I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.