I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.
'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.