There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

Some things were better lost than found.

The truth was much more beautiful.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!