"I love fashion."
"I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot."
"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."
"My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans."
"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."
"I am the luckiest actress on the planet."
"Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers."
"I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together."
"My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe."
"It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience."
"Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it."
"I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else's name called; after that - I think it was a protective thing - I didn't hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn't mine."
"The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me."
"When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy."
"With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be."
"I was a shy little girl. Growing up, I was often content being alone in my room, making up stories, and acting out all the parts. I became so good at it that, with the door closed, my parents thought I had friends over."
"Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle."
"In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long Island suburb of New York City. What I remember most about the house was the glider on our porch. I used to sit there evenings close to my father, Victor, as he talked about the moon and the stars. He taught me to dream big."
"My father was an ironworker who eventually co-founded a construction business. My mother, Jeanette, was a stay-at-home mom who had been an operating-room nurse until my older brother, Jimmy, was born."
"I occasionally buy a bikini, but I'm too shy to wear it."
"You don't have to get doughty or, suddenly, because you have a new label on you, 'Oh, I'm 50, so therefore, I have to be a certain thing.' Follow your heart and look at your rear view as well as your front view!"
"I was very lucky both of my parents had really nice skin."
"If your skin looks okay today, and you take care of it, there's a good chance it's going to look good tomorrow."
"I think we all cheer for couples who just seem right together and go the distance."
