Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful. "

" I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Do What You Love

" We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard. "

" 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. "

" 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. "