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" As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential. "
Character
Work
Parent
" Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. "
Parents
Life
Healthy
" Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. "
Look
Police
Country
" Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. "
Life
Know
Balance
" Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something. "
Week
Opportunity
Love
" I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. "
Life
Money
You
" I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. "
Work
History
Live
" I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. "
Think
People
Interesting
" I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. "
Good Things
Good
Free
" 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. "
Friends
Friendship
Life
" I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. "
Help
World
Parenting
" I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that. "
Bad
America
Think
" I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. "
Business
Thinking
Think
" I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful. "
You
Work
Think
" I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there. "
Life Is Hard
Think
Life
" I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in. "
You
Hard
Think
" I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine. "
Laugh
Life
Thought
" It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made. "
Difficult
Incredibly
Made
" It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. "
Live
Good
Love
" It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful. "
Fun
Want
My Life
" I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick. "
Best
Best Friend
Friend
" Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do. "
More
Find
Interesting
" Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. "
Play
Skating
Chicago
" We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard. "
World
Laugh
Hard
" You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. "
Loved
Math
Mom
" You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me. "
Love
Family
Do What You Love
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