It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it.

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

The dignity of history.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.