I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not…

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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic...

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic...

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and...

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and...

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and...

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and...

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

I was not an easy kid.

I was not an easy kid.

I'm not good at accepting help.

I'm not good at accepting help.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy...

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy...

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never...

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never...

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist...

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist...

I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show,...

I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show,...

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to...

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to...

I'm sort of a slob.

I'm sort of a slob.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great...

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great...

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had...

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had...

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets...

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets...

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often...

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often...

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it...

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it...