As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn’t get work, when I wanted to quit.
Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.
I’m a water person; water heals.
My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.
I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they’re pregnant.
I have a nest egg, and I don’t buy above my means.
I say to everybody, ‘Adoption is not for the faint of heart.’
Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
Eric Lewis doesn’t play the piano, he devours it. He doesn’t play music, he channels the divine.
My weekends are extremely precious.
I have so much love that I didn’t even know about.
Life begins at 40, and I’m living proof.
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you’re not what I expected.
I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
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.
It’s very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.
The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.
Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can’t do it longer than that because it’s so difficult.
It wasn’t really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It’s also believing the circumstances and I believed it.