I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Relaxing is for the other guy.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.