I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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