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.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.