That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.