Julie Bowen Quotes

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.

I read books more than I go out.

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.