Grace. Quotes

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.

I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

I'm on a search for the truth.

I have faith in the jury system.

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

A lot of police shootings are justified, but many others are not.

I do not favor the gag order.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I'm a runner. I like to run.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

I never thought I'd get to have children; to me [they're] just a miracle.

I love to be with my twins. They are my true joy in life.

I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!

The haters can just keep hating but I'm certainly not stopping because of them. But I can't say it doesn't hurt. It hurts a great deal. It hurts very much.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

I really need a therapist.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

What I've been saying to people is that I write it.