There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

I don't see why anyone should put me down for my job. I'm bright. I'm intelligent. I turn letters - so what? I also talk. I talk on the show! People know my name on the show.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

Any press is good press.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

Life is an adventure, you only win if you are bold and courageous.

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

I'm very open-minded.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do

our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.