I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

Just when you think you're hitting your stride someone will shout "cut" and ask you to move your head to the left. It's such an awkward process. You try to make it passionate but it ends up being mechanical.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Instead of being insecure and jealous and suspicious and wonder if every guy is going to cheat on me, I decided to say, "Nope. This will be totally enough for somebody one day." That was a real script flip and it changed the rest of my life in such a positive way. So I feel like I want to teach stuff like that to my girls.

I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make.