I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.