When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Humans are the world’s greatest treasure

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

If a women ask for respect instead of earning it then they are weak.

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.