What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.