It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.

It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.

I have everything I need. Our house is very joyful.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

My weekends are extremely precious.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life.

Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.