It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.'

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Honor isnt about making the right choices. Its about dealing with the consequences.

I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.

Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I never think people are too careful with me.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Although the skills arent hard to learn finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.

Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

When you re read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Dont wish it were easier. Wish you were better.