I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.