- (on co-star and friend, Catherine Hickland Lindsay)                  
"Cat and I have been archenemies on the show for five years. But we're really great friends off screen, which shocks audiences. We find ourselves terribly amusing - usually around two or three o'clock in the morning when we're trying to do scenes and we're in hysterics. Because we think we're so funny, we hope that other people will find us amusing, too."     

- “The rewards [of acting] can be huge, but you must make sure you're with someone who understands your career, who wants to be a partner and team player. You're in this together." - 2004

- (on co-star and friend, Catherine Hickland Lindsay)
"I saw her as this bouncy, blonde, kind of fun airhead puppy that came in to play with us. And she's hardly that. She's bouncy and fun, but she's not an airhead puppy by any stretch of the imagination. She and I are very, very close friends." - 2004   

- “When you see a character shot point-blank, and you bury him and do all that nonsense, and then you bring him back, it tends to be a bit on the preposterous side. But that's the beauty of the soap opera - there is nothing too preposterous." - 2005

- “When I was a teenager, I knew John Travolta and I would be together. It was completely obvious to everyone except John!" - 2004                

- “I think working in daytime is pretty odd. You're lying in bed half naked with a man and getting paid to do it." - 2004

- “I'd love to play Lindsay, Starr or GH's Tracy Quatermaine - someone just a little bit disturbed." - 2003               

- “Life is short, and you need to do things now, because they matter now. Don't count on there being a tomorrow, especially when it comes to interpersonal relationships." - 2003

- “Do I suggest storylines? Yes. Do they listen? Yes. Do they use them? Not always. But I do tweak lines and share my opinions." - 2004                

- “I believe in giving your children a wide path, but with very firm boundaries so there's room for them to make their own decisions and formulate their own ideas while having the security of knowing [how far to go]." - 2005

- (on her One Life to Live audition)
"After my audition, I never thought I'd get the role. As originally conceived, Nora was supposed to be a little bit like Katharine Hepburn. But I had my own definite idea of what I wanted her to be - more like Lauren Bacall. So I walked into the audition, and like Sinatra, I did it my way. After I finished my reading, the powers-that-be all sat there with their mouths hanging open. You could hear a pin drop. So, with this experience safely behind me, I headed home, confident that I wouldn't be hearing from One Life To Live. But here I am.

- (on her favorite Mommy story)
"There are so many of them - here's one: When my daughter, Courtney, was old enough to know that I was on a soap opera, her teacher asked her, 'What does your mommy do?' Courtney said, 'My mommy is a lawyer on TV, and she was married to the black prosecutor, and she has a Jewish/Black daughter, and now she's having an affair with a man and she killed his wife.' The teacher was bug-eyed. Needless to say, I got a phone call at home. That was an interesting moment of explanation."
-From One Life To Live - Thirty Years Of Memories