Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Happiness is the result of a life well lived

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.