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.
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, once I got married and had children, you know, psychologists say once you do have kids you revert back to your own childhood consciously or not and for me it was very conscious and I was just aching for a sense of community and belonging and a sense of place that nourished me as a child.
And, we sat down over lunch and I said well look, Judith, the only thing I think I have to say anything about really is my own journey which I thought a lot of people could relate to, having left home at 18 years old and lived in big cities all my adult life, New York and Los Angeles.
As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.
As for comfort foods, its always something southern, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas and corn bread.
Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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.
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.
However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.
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.
I have a strong belief in God..I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
I have a trainer..I run on the treadmill for a half hour to forty five minutes... I also use machines and free weights and do stretching exercises.
I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.
I have read a lot of Ann Rice because it is like being in my backyard with the New Orleans background to her stories.
I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.
I love this show. I love this show so much. Once and Again to me is so awesome and brilliant and the characters are incredible.
I loved Dark Shadows as a child.
I swore I'd never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily's character so much and the writing.
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 use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.
I was - well, I went to cheer for the NIT tournaments, basketball tournaments for Alabama.
I was approached about writing a book and I explored with the publisher what I was interested in writing about.
I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.
It's not one of those tell-all typical autobiographies. It is a memoir. It's a reflection of my life in broad strokes really giving the reader my journey and my perspective of my own home in order for them to really understand what I refer to when I talk about a loss of community.
Maybelline, 24 hour fresh lash mascara, sent me to 18 voice lessons. I still had such a southern accent.
Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.
My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.
No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.
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.
Study as hard as you can and if you are serious Los Angeles is the place for television and movies and New York for theater.
That's true and you really can't go home in the same way. The place is not the same. It's changed. You've changed.
The people are not the same but a friend of mine who lived in Israel and her mother had died during the Holocaust said the land for her, not so much the people but the land for her, the smells, the contour of the land, the sense of place really became her mother. Israel became her mother.
The proceeds of the book are going to the kids at Hope Village, so anyone who needs a Christmas present know that it's helping the kids.
Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.
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.
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
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.
Sela took over as spokesperson for the Sprint long distance telephone service commercial campaign from Candice Bergan, from 1999 to 2002.
Sela appeared alongside vetran actors Jack Lemon, Dan Akroyd, and Lauren Bacall in the political comedy My Fellow Americans, as Kaye Griffin in 1996.
Sela reaped many awards for her role as the divorced Lily Manning in the family drama series Once and Again, including an Emmy, Golden Globe, and a Viewers for Quality Television Award. Her nominations included one for a Screen Actors Guild Award, Two Golden Globes, and an Emmy.
Sela turned down the role of Megan Donner on CSI: Miami in 2002.
Sela appeared in Runaway Bride as a pretty woman in the bar in 1999.
Sela sold her 11,600 square foot French Norman-Style mansion that boasts 7 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a screening room, tennis court, library, sauna, gym, 2 guest houses, and a swimming pool to Madonna.
Sela passed on the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, Terri Hatcher's role, because she didn't want to sign a six year contract after just finishing her run on Once and Again.
Sela studied Art & Advertising at the University of Alabama, where she was a cheerleader and Homecoming Queen.
Sela married her husband, venture capitalist Howard Sherman on May 30, 1998. They have a son named Austin, born in 1996, and a daughter named Anabella, born in 1998.
Measurements: 34-24-34 (from her first modeling card).
She was turned down for the part of a Bond Girl, reportedly because the director thought she was too old.
Her name is biblical meaning hallelujah or amen.
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