What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.