I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.