I feel for the players.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I'm really just a normal person.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

I feel for the players.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

When family ties are disturbed devoted children arise.

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early.

I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Couples who make it aren't the ones who never had a reason to get divorced; they are simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and their flaws.