I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.