I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

With growth comes change.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

Most people are other people.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.