Christina Applegate

“It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.”

“I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.”

“We grow our own vegetables.”

“My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.”

“I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life, but they have Stage IV breast cancer. So you do what you can to be as healthy as you can if you know you're high-risk because yes, all those things can factor into that. But sometimes it's just a fluke.”

“Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.”

“I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life.”

“I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.”

“Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.”

“אני באמת אוהבת את חג המולד. אני אוהבת להיות עם המשפחה שלי ואני אוהבת שלג. אני אוהבת את המוזיקה ואת האורות וכל זה.”

“התוכנית בהחלט זעזעה והגעילה אנשים. אבל בפרטיות, הם נהנו לצחוק על זה. אני חושבת שלעתים קרובות מדי אנשים מסתכלים על המשפחות המושלמות בטלוויזיה וחושבים, 'למה המשפחה שלי לא יכולה להיות כזו?' במקרה של 'נשואים פלוס', אנשים היו מסוגלים לומר, 'תודה לאל שהמשפחה שלי לא כזו!' ”

“זה לא היה קל לאמא שלי, להיות שחקנית שנאבקת על כל גרוש ובמקביל לגדל ילדה, היינו שתינו כמו נוודות, אף פעם לא ידענו מאיפה יגיע הכסף וחיינו דקה אחר דקה. היא לא הייתה יכולה להרשות לעצמה בייביסיטר, אז לא הייתה ברירה אלא לשים אותי על הבמה. התחלתי לעשות פרסומות לרדיו כשהייתי בת שלוש. אפילו לא ממש דיברתי כמו שצריך.”

“We're a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That's her choice. That's how she eats. We're really conscious about what we buy.”

“For breakfast, I juice a big green juice, and I try to get in as much raw food and protein as I can, obviously plant proteins and legumes, but sometimes it's late at night, and there's a frozen pizza in there, and sometimes it's all you've got! You don't have the energy to chop up a bunch of vegetables.”

“When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young women were getting it, and people weren't understanding that.”

“There was a time when I was like, 'I'm a dramatic actor,' 'I'm a comedian'... There's no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over.”

“With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.”

“I'm a Sagittarius. We need things done now.”

“I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.”

“They make really great synthetic fur - you really don't need real fur. And it's cheaper, so why spend the money?”