We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.