All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.
Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
Everybody thinks I punched some girl at a bar.
Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?
I actually wish I had smaller breasts.
I am not going to have things rehashed from 15 years ago.
I began to complain quite a bit about the show straying away, turning into a soap opera.
I can't stand unpacking.
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
I decided I was too young to get married.
I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.
I did love Ashley, but I needed to feel loved. There were things about him I didn't find out until we were married. It was one of the most unhealthy relationships I've ever been in.
I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.
I don't like my character. The only people to turn to is our writers. I would like for them to make her not quite as sappy or bitchy or whatever.
I don't think the Republican Party is against women.
I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.
I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.
I had advertising companies drop me. I lost money.
I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.
I have no financial problems now. I have good people working with me. It's time to stop rehashing and move on.
I help relationships come to an end or help them go to the next level. It can be boyfriend or girlfriend, or if you want to quit your job.
I like character in their faces, I don't care for perfect teeth or chiseled features.
I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive.
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.
I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.
I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.
I think one of the main problems is that my character started off very sweet and gradually she became sappy.
I was never hit as a child. I don't believing in hitting, period.
I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.
I wasn't pushed by my parents. They're not very supportive of this business. They're supportive of me, but not this business, because they've seen what it had done.
I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.
I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.
I'd been working since I was 10, never really went out and partied. Suddenly you get a hit show and some money, and I just wanted to live life.
I'll lock myself in my house for a little slack. I don't know how much worse it can get.
I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.
I'm a normal person. My housekeeper has better things to do.
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
I'm not a big believer in occult stuff, but there was this one spell about how to connect with Satan. That horrified me.
I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.
I'm not going to combat lies. I can already tell what's going to be in your article.
I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.
I'm the person who stops and gives any homeless person any money that they want.
I've had so much happen, it's hard to trust people.
If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.
In my first year on the show, I was overwhelmed by so much responsibility and pressure that I didn't handle things in a very diplomatic manner.
It's a major drag not to be able to go out and just hang with your friends. But I guess for now I have to.
Let me call my publicist. I'm not going down this path.
My inner child is not wounded.
My parents have been married 28 years.
Other people aren't able to come to our set and observe us, so they don't really see how well we actually do get along.
Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it - that's completely false.
Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do-that you don't want to show full breasts or whatever-and there are no arguments about it.
That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.
That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?
The director, whatever his name is, I've never met him in my entire life, made this statement that I'm this terrible lady and that I was jealous that I didn't have enough lines.
The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.
There is so much focus on you that you can't just do and say whatever you feel. You have to watch everything that you do and everything that you say.
There was this love spell where you put a photo of the man you like underneath your pillow and chant every night for seven nights under a waxing moon. Supposedly he'll think of you every single day and then arrive at your door.
There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.
There's only so much you can do. People hit the press right away and lie about you. What can you say?
There's so much bad press, is it really a good time to do a Playboy shoot?
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question.
Tori was such a good friend and we were always so close, working through every problem.
We play dare a lot. Somebody dated me to fall ridiculously in public, so I fell. All these strangers were staring, and I thought, Oh, God, they're going to think I'm wasted off my ass.
When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.
When you have a big cast, you all have problems. Everybody argues, but we're like brothers and sisters, and all make up. We all love each other.
Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
You can only defend somebody so much. It's like the 90210 cast members don't know what to say anymore.
You just have to keep believing in yourself.
You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?
You've got to say, I've got my own life, my own identity. I think guys in relationships can be much more casual that women.
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
In the early 1990's, she was targeted by a young woman who attacked celebrities in nightclubs, before suing them, claiming the celebrity started the attack. Shannen defended herself against the woman, punching her in the face. The tabloid press ignored the motives of the young woman, spending more time claiming that Shannen attacked her in a drunken rage.
She appeared in the music video "Real Love" by the band Slaughter.
Her favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Katherine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, and Whoopi Goldberg.
She loves southern food, especially fried steaks.
It took her two years to persuade her parents to allow her to act.
She loves to cook, something she has in common with her father.
She first met
At the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, she presented a special award to rock band Van Halen.
She loves the Hostess snack Zinger but she can only eat the plain ones because she is allergic to chocolate and coconut. She also can't resist a Twix even with her chocolate allergies.
She has Crohn's disease.
Shannen's short marriage to
Even though she has left the show
Has a brother named Sean, who was born in 1967.
In 2004, she got into a fight with actress
She married actor Ashley Hamilton (son of George Hamilton) in September 1993, only two weeks after they first met. Unsurprisingly, they divorced in April 1994. In 2002, she married internet millionaire Rick Salomon. After Salomon's notorious sex tape with heiress Paris Hilton was released, Shannen ended the marriage, divorcing him in early 2003.
She has been romantically linked with actors M?tley Cr?e vocalist
She loves listening to U2, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Frank Sinatra.
She used to have over 250 pairs of shoes, but she gave them to charity.
She was famously quoted as saying that
It is unknown exactly why her character Prue Halliwell was killed off in the season three finale of
She is a supporter of the Republican party.
She turned up late on the first day of shooting for the 1994 TV movie Jailbreakers, infuriating director William Friedkin.
In 1997, she was sentenced to anger management counseling after getting into an argument with a motorist and smashing a beer bottle against his windshield as he drove away.
Before joining
In 2001, she was sentenced to three years probation, fined $1,500 and forced to do community service after a drunk-driving charge.
As of 2006, she lives in California and owns a horse ranch in Ventura County.
She has denied rumors that she got into a public fight with notorious heiress
She was cast as Denise Johnson in the pilot of UPN sitcom
Shannen appeared as Prue in 66 episodes of
She was discovered by fellow actor
She made $75,000 per episode during her three seasons on
Her favorite colors are blue and green.
She is allergic to chocolate and wool.
She was offered a role in the horror movie Scream 3 but politely turned it down.
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