In my first courtroom scene, William [Shatner] had one of those giant monologues [creator] David Kelley likes to deliver. My cell phone went off. I thought it was off. And not only did it go off, but I did not know how to turn it off.

I never had furniture. I had four knives, forks and cups. I had one of those bachelor sets you get at Ikea. One little pot, for years,

[In one courtroom scene, in which Robinson is asked by his lawyer whether he has committed the rape, the accused man answers firmly, but with tears in his eyes:] I did not, sir. ... There wasn't a dry eye on set filming that scene… [the director] Robert Mulligan sat me down and asked me to prepare for the point where I burst into tears by only going to places in my mind where I remembered and experienced pain, and let me tell you the tears did come.

We kind of knew (Savannah) would be the first. I was the only one up there ready to deliver.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!