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About having her daughters on her reality show despite her ex-husband's objections:
I wanted them to be represented. I've gotten a lot of flak for it, though. The reality is, I'm a single mom with two little girls, and I would be manipulating the show if they weren't in it at all. Nobody said anything when Kimora Lee Simmons put her kids on her show. Besides, we have never shielded them from the media. When [oldest daughter] Sam was one week old, we did a cover shoot for People Magazine, and she was on an episode of Two and a Half Men when she was 8 months old! The girls are not aware of the cameras. They care about the craft services, and that's all.
About her daughters, ages 3 and 4 at the time:
Yes, my kids are in therapy. It's very sad that they need to be there, but they do for now. On the other hand, it's good they have an outlet to deal with their feelings, and that they have someone to be their advocate. If I can help anyone feel better about their kids being in therapy, then something else good has come of this, too.
On Heather Locklear:
The thing with Heather, that's been hard... you know, you can't help who you fall for, and that friendship was done with and wasn't salvageable. You know, she wasn't my best friend. She was a close friend in the last couple of years - I hadn't known her my whole life like people are portraying. It's been tough having people think that I'm a crappy friend - because if we were friends, I wouldn't be in this situation.
On joining "Dancing With the Stars" in 2009:
I've been approached in the past, but I didn't want to do it. I wasn't brave enough. The perception of me was so bad [because of my divorce from Charlie Sheen] that I probably would have been voted off the first night! Now I'm in a different place, and it's going to be fun. Besides, life is short.
On whether she and Heather Locklear can ever be friends again:
No, and I'm okay with that. I wish her well.
When asked if she is attracted to bad boys:
I have a weakness for guys with a bit of an edge. What is a bad boy? Someone who drinks, does drugs, and is with prostitutes? I don't want to reform anyone. I can't do that anymore. I just want a nice guy.
A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.
Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
Charlie Sheen was a nice guy when I met him. People ask me, "Did you really think you were going to change him?" My answer always is, "He didn't need to be changed." Now our girls are going to grow up feeling very torn between us, and that's sad. I'm willing to at least be cordial, but he has no interest in moving past this. As for them bonding with Brooke [Charlie's new wife], you know what? As long as the kids are happy, healthy, and safe, that's all that matters to me. The more they are loved, the better.
Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.
During the day I don't wear much makeup.
Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.
First of all I work out, second of all the Director of Photography on our film is amazing and I told him if any cellulite shows I will kill him!
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
I found out early I could make more money modeling than I could waitressing and scooping Häagen-Dazs. But I always wanted to be an actress.
I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.
I love being a mom so much. I love waking up with Sami and Lola, taking them to school, to the dentist, and to gymnastics. The girls are my life. After the divorce, it was kind of scary at first, being alone with the girls, but eventually....it is what it is. It's my life now. It's me and the girls, and that's that.
I really don't see the downside to posing for Playboy again. I mean, I did it before, and everyone's already seen me naked, so what the hell, right?
I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face.
I'm a single mom picking up the pieces of my life. I'm not the girl who is portrayed in the press. I am not a husband-stealer, a gold-digger, or a bitch. My life right now is my kids, my friends, and my work.
I'm spontaneous. I love going from one thing to something else and not knowing what I'm going to do next.
I'm truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.
It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.
My marriage turned the day I found out I was pregnant with Sam. I knew it was done. I did not have a husband who wanted me to have a child. I did the nursery by myself. I went to the doctor by myself. I felt very alone. I should have left then, but I wouldn't have Lola right now, so I know I was meant to be with him for my kids, and that's it.
She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.
The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.
There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.
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