Julie Bowen

“I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.”

“I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.”

“I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.”

“I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.”

“You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.”

“I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.”

“I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.”

“As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.”

“I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.”

“I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.”

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”

“I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.”

“Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.”

“I'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.”

“It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.”

“People always tell me I have a lot of guy energy.”

“I consider a day without running a crappy day.”

“Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!”

“It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.”

“I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!”