I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

lose weight, eat backwards.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.