I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

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

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

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

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

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

Marriage is wonderful.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

I entertain for a living, and I entertain.

It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

I feel young every day.

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

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

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.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

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

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

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

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

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

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

I love to read about what my love life is really like.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

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

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

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

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.

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.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

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.

It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to stay in the south and to experience the color which must be carried to the uttermost- it is not far to Africa."