I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.