When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.
One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.
I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.
I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.
My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.
