We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

I'm excited about all technology.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I'm going to look the way God intends me to look... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I talk too much.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.