Julie Bowen

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I've loved doing "E.R." for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

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

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

People always tell me I have a lot of guy energy.

People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.

I have a big mouth.

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 haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

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

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.

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

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'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.

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

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

I'm incredibly lucky.

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.