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 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

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.