"I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much."

Love
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"I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked."

"I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers."

"My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force."

"I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production."

"I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus."

"Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me."

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"But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them."

"My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy."

"I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."

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"No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful."

"I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much."

"I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside."

"I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight."

"I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times."

Life
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"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."

"I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob."

"My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little."

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"I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids."

"It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress."