I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

When the value of a relation gets lower than the amount of thought and time needed to maintain or resurrect them, It withers away.

websites should look good from the inside and out

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang)

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self