The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I really like sort of disappearing.

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.