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

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

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.

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."

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

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'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.