My first 'SNL' episode was with MICHAEL Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and WATCH the monologue - it was supposed to FEATURE Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many THINGS that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can ALWAYS apply it. It's your little SUPPLY BAG of CREATIVITY. Keep filling it up.

I feel comfortable around every DRIVER out there and each driver is in CHARGE of their own CAR, but you feel very secure racing the COMPETITION out there.

'You have CHICKENS?' That's what nearly everyone asks NEXT, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to MAKE sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving FARM GIRL.

Just WATCHING JACK Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

My children are the REASON I LAUGH, smile and WANT to get up EVERY morning.

Had there been a reporter ALONG with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those PEOPLE in VIETNAM, I think that probably wouldn't have HAPPENED.

I can LOOK back at things I've done and said and WORN and be completely humiliated by them, but I can NEVER say it wasn't me. I feel REALLY honored to say that.

I WANT to BUILD a BRAND for myself and GET booked for being me, while OTHERS will get booked for being them.

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had LOST half its market value in the PRIOR year. They had to CUT COSTS to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.