I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.