You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I think we've all experienced sort of becoming who we are as a reaction to what we come from.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I can be a little acerbic.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I always want to work.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn’t do that

An echo has no voice of its own.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.