2/15/83: "She likes a lot of drama in her life and that's very much me. I tend to create my own drama — it keeps life more intriguing."
— on how she and Ashley are alike

2/14/84: "We just kind of expect it to happen. We're not setting a date or anything, though. It'll just happen when the time is right. Yes, and children, too. I say 10, he says two."
— on if marriage is in the cards with then-boyfriend Nicholas Walker (ex-Trey, CAPITOL)

11/15/88: "All the nice cars, the big homes, the most beautiful clothes in the world aren't going to satisfy something in me that has to fly right now. I have to give it a chance. I'm in a real safe world now — a big fish in a little pond."
— on why she left after playing Ashley for six years

10/17/89: "Parts like Ashley Abbott don't come around all the time. I'm now trying to find projects that measure up to what I did on soaps."
— on life after Y&R, which included starring in a low-budget art film Eternity with Jon Voight and Armande Assante

10/30/90: "It was a very strange time in my life. For a while, I felt like I had jumped out of a plane, pulled the rip cord and found that the parachute didn't open."
— on taking a break from acting after completing Eternity

4/28/92: "People said the same thing about Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, so I guess I'm in good company."
— on the unrelenting false rumors that she was a man before sex-change surgery

11/9/93: "I thought I was pregnant after one scene. I was appalled — and I have been doing this for a long time."
— on her sizzling love scenes with DAYS co-star Drake Hogestyn (John)

11/22/94: "I am dating someone right now ... he's a wonderful guy. It's Jon Lindstrom from GENERAL HOSPITAL [ex-Kevin/Ryan]. We don't know where it's going. We like each other."

6/10/97: "Everybody cried."
— on her intimate nups with Lindstrom in May 1997

4/28/98: "I'll be really happy to not be changing clothes every 15 minutes."
— on the end of playing her five DAYS characters

5/12/98: "This has been the most fulfilling experience of my life."
— on leaving DAYS

6/8/99: "After doing a lot of different things in the last decade, from movies, to TV series, to other soaps, I've found that Y&R is a pretty cake job. The 10 years I spent away from the show feels like 50. Coming back to Y&R is a new beginning — and a whole other chapter."

1/8/02: "It was violating. You wonder, 'Why me?' "
— on the story and photos of her romance with Y&R co-star Vincent Van Patten (ex-Christian) in a tabloid that implied the relationship ended her marriage to Lindstrom

4/22/03: "I had morning sickness for about eight weeks, all day long. I couldn't tell anybody here.... I couldn't even complain. I'd crawl in here and do my scenes, then crawl to my car and go home."
— on keeping her pregnancy a secret for the first trimester

8/5/03: "I'm not worried about playing any emotional scenes. I'm so hormonal right now, it won't be a problem."
— on returning to Y&R after her maternity leave

7/13/04: "I used to be a backpack person, just throw all my junk in a backpack and go. Now I've got suitcases with wheels and holders and baby bags and strollers.... Wish us luck!"
— on her new way of traveling since becoming a mom

12/5/06: "I've been blessed twice on this show. The first time, it gave me a foot into daytime and allowed me to be on DAYS, and then coming back here, I met my husband and had my son. I have nothing but gratitude for Y&R."
— on being fired