Julie Bowen
I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!Collection: Mom
I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.Collection: Diet
I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.Collection: Dating
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.Collection: Faith
Sometimes good enough is good enough.
Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
I've worn some ugly shoes.
It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.
I read books more than I go out.
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!
I love my job.
I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.
I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.
I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.
I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.
Baltimore is a great place.
I'm incredibly lucky.
I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.
Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!
I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.
As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.
I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.
I'm not in shape.
I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.
You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.
I'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.
My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.
I consider a day without running a crappy day.
People always tell me I have a lot of guy energy.
Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!
People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.
I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.
I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!
I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.
Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.
I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.
Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.Collection: Fall
I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.Collection: Kids
We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!Collection: Children