When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.