My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

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'm not a dreamerI Just believe in Allah (God)

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

They're (SS501 members) dongsaengs that will be with me for the rest of my life.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).