Quotes from Sela Ward

I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

Southern life follows not the rules of logic, but the whims of poetry. The ways of Southern womanhood have always been distinct. After all, nobody's filming Steel Magnolias about the women of North Dakota, and a Ya-Ya Sisterhood has yet to be discovered in Rhode Island.

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.