In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

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.

I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.

Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.”“I hate you, too.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.