Julie Bowen Quotes

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I read books more than I go out.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Baltimore is a great place.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.