Holly Marie Combs

Holly: (On shielding her son from the media while she raises him) When I see Reese Witherspoon trying to go to the grocery store with her kids and there are photographers following her it just breaks my heart. I think, 'She's just trying to buy eggs…and you've got to document it for the world.'... ...How do you raise a normal kid when you have to explain that there are strange men in the bushes taking your picture?

Holly: (On hiding the symptoms of the first six months of her first pregnancy during filming of the TV series Charmed) I was in absolute amazement about how debilitating tired I was… You could read it on my face when they filmed me... ...They started to incorporate naptimes into my schedule…[and] they spread out my scenes so that I would have breaks in between.

Holly: (On Alyssa & Rose's escapades with her baby, Finley) They take him in the makeup trailer and do bad things to his hair. The girls gave him a mohawk the other day. So I can't let him out of my sight for very long.

Holly: (On fighting evil and finding hunky boyfriends on the TV series Charmed) I just had to accept the fact that what I do is basically entertainment,... ...It can't be ground-shaking moral dilemmas all the time.

Holly: (On if she still talks with her Charmed sisters) Yes! Rose [McGowan] and I went to lunch after I had Riley, and she asked if I was still working out regularly. I said, "Are you kidding me?!" So Rose sent me her trainer! Only a really good girlfriend would do that. She pointed out my wrinkles, too; as you can see, she's almost like a sister! Alyssa [Milano] lives in the neighborhood, so I see her out a lot. Shannen [Doherty] I speak to every two or three months; we call to check up on each other. It's nice - we all spent a very large chunk of our 20s together, and we basically grew up together. We did have a good time on the show, despite all the rumors.

Holly: (On if there is a Charmed reunion in the works) If the script was right, and all the girls were available, we'd absolutely do one.

Holly: (On being cast as Lucy Hale's mother in the TV series "Pretty Little Liars") I am not sure how they came up with me. I do know my agent said that I probably wasn't going to want to do it cuz it was the mom of a 16yr. Then I reminded everyone how young my own mother is. So that part didn't freak me out a bit. It is my normal. My mom is only 15 yrs older.

Holly: (On adapting the 8 book for the TV series "Pretty Little Liars") I do watch every week and I do know they get better every week. We had a lot of info to get out there with about 20 different characters. This season will encompass all 8 books and then we will have more freedom to explore each of the characters.

Holly: (On what it is about her character Ella in the TV series "Pretty Little Liars" that made her choose the project) I can't be at work everyday. Just can't with 3 boys. My being does not allow it. So the and tone of the part appealed to me as did the possibility of being on a show that was this cool. It was almost a little too cool for me with all the issues involved. But I liked that it dealt with kid's issues of today. And that they do that with brutal honesty on all fronts. It is a bit daring and still fun. And If I can be fortunate enough to do 3 shows that resonate with people somehow somewhere…I really couldn't ask for more.

Holly: To [stop smoking] was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.... Then when I got pregnant the smell of other people's cigarette smoke was so heinous to me that it made me not want to have a cigarette ever again. It's kind of like cheating [when] it's so easy to quit because you can't take the smell!