Before You're A Mom You Don't Know

It's So Nice After 10 Years As A Blond Actress In Hollywood To Have People Let You Do Smart Things.

As Comfortable As I Was With My Adoption, The Nature-versus-nurture Question Has Been A Big One For Me. I Adore My Parents, But I Always Wondered If I Would Feel A Different Kind Of Love-not More Or Less, Just Different-for Someone Who Was Biologically Related.

I'm Never Going To Be A Modern Gal. I Love Colonial. I Love Early American. I Love A Big Rectangular Piece Of Brown Furniture On A Hardwood Floor.

It Was The First Time, In The West Wing, I Had Ever Read Anyone Write A Southerner Properly. Because Southern Women, In My Opinion, Are Complicated And Are Equally Feminine And Driven. That's Kind Of An Unusual Combination And People Usually Tend To Get It Wrong.

I Feel Like 'csi: Miami' Was Just A License To Do All Sorts Of Horrible Things That I'd Always Wanted To Do.