“I need good friends who can say, ‘I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.’”

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman.

I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that’s somebody I have to play.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

So, it’s cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.

You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don’t want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

Soy lattes get me through my day!

It’s definitely attractive when a man can dress well.

I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you’re in a room and someone else smells good, you’re like, ‘Where is that?’

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

I couldn’t believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I’m involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there’s no question about that.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.

I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it’s a beautiful thing.

I tend to have a lot of guy friends.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.