But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

With our hands, we reach for things we shouldn't have and we grasp what isn't ours. The way I have always reached for you.

Don't play on safe, you must learn few rules and the other is just lessons.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.