I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

I definitely don't do stomach, because nobody wants to see that.

Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.

Jesus is my forgiver, my leader, and my friend.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.