I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

Develop a conscience to live by.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.