You’re supposed to look a certain way when you’re a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don’t mesh very well.
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
The outside world can be very tough.
I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
I do all my own stunts!
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I’m a bridesmaid, which I’ve been lucky enough to be several times.
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
But I’ll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren’t properly dressed without them.
And you can’t hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
I’m still conflict-averse. I don’t like to argue.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
I will tell you what I can’t abide – and I think the Internet has really created a space for it – women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, ‘Happiness is your own responsibility.’ That’s probably what I quote from her and live by the most.
And now, I still really don’t care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.