The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Kids are messy!

I love being home. I have friends that come over.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Oh, it’s not really gambling when you never lose.

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I’ve always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

There are many stages of grief.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

I think rage is so ugly.

There is nothing you can control about love.

When I was 22, I was having a ball!

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

I guess we’d be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don’t speak. It’s a bummer. I miss her.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don’t find very funny.

True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I feel young every day.

When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it’s scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren’t we kind of the same age?

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

You can undo a lot of things. If you’re not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That’s the thing I really feel.

I don’t get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I wasn’t a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

I don’t know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don’t see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Your body will tell you what it needs.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies – how zany is up to them.

I always say don’t make plans, make options.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

You train your man to do nothing.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak – I literally lost my breath!

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that’s nobody’s business.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

I don’t know if I ever really get mad in real life.