I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.

You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?