You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
I don't get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls. ' They age you so fast.
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good. " But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you
I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be.
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.