I realised those things my ego needed - FAME and SUCCESS - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the BIGGEST part of my career because I KNEW, otherwise, my DEMONS would get the better of me.

As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her LOSS was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I COULD say a final GOODBYE after the LONGEST goodbye and relief that my MUM had finally been released.

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a BABY. I really felt like I had said a GRACEFUL and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had SORT of MADE my peace with that.

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be LESS involved in the world. My FRIENDS all hate me during that TIME because I can't see anyone. We SAY goodbye to everything.

It was hard saying GOODBYE to the 'iCarly' FAMILY just because we have BECOME such a family, but I do GET to see them all the time, and I stay in TOUCH with them.

I've played the DRUMS for so LONG, I can't imagine saying GOODBYE to it.

I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown TOWN HOUSE with Dad. I never went BACK. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.

I MEAN, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf SHOT the rest of my life and I'd be HAPPY because I can get back in life without any rotation.

A COUPLE of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in UNIFORM' and 'The LONG GOODBYE.'

When they were TAKING Paris to JAIL for the SECOND time, she went to kiss me goodbye. The guards SAID 'No' and just took her.

I'm a big fan of Robert Altman, and one of the THINGS I love in 'The LONG GOODBYE' is the way that he plays with the theme; it's just USED in all these different WAYS.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's TIME to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to MOVE on, like a HERD of antelope. They're just standing there in a field EATING grass. You feel like that as a person SOMETIMES. Where's it's just time to move on.