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“I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.”
“You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.”
“It's hard to find a way to be good to your husband, be good to your kid, and be good to yourself.”
“As you fall in love with friends, you want to spend more and more time with each other.”
“Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.”
“I always pack a travel snack bag. You don't want to get stuck without snacks no matter where you go!”
“I've been on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions in my life, so it's not unusual that I went in for 'Glee.' What was unusual is that it was a week, exactly, after I had given birth.”
“There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.”
“I'm big into my Twitter account.”
“It's sad to me we can't be in a place where we can acknowledge we're all doing our best and respect the decisions other women make and even offer to help out.”
“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.”
“I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!”
“My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as long as I can remember, we made Nana's waffles in my house. It was a weekend tradition.”
“My children make me cry on a daily basis about everything. Tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness - all the tears, all the time.”
“We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'”
“I have my own grown-up versions of temper tantrums, too. I have a hard time not getting hurt when my kids have meltdowns.”
“I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.”