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.

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

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.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.

There's a misnomer that Hillary Clinton is as hawkish as I am, basically.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.