Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.