When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you.

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.