American Quotes

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

I don't watch a lot of television.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

I do not cook.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go t

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.