But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I love receiving fan mail.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

I am a very selfish person.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

I love talking about myself.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

As soon as you get over caring what people think you can have a nice time

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

When the media's attacking me, when the establishment Republicans are attacking me and the Democrats are attacking me, that means I'm the 'We the People' person, and I'm on the right course as far as I'm concerned.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.

Dont marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you cant live without.