QUOTES
Talking about Liam:
How's motherhood? Tell me about the difficult parts.
I think honestly the most difficult part is when I had to come in here, and he was running down the hall going, "Mama Mama" He has separation anxiety going on. I think mine is worse than his, because he recovers after three seconds, and I don't.
How do you balance work and motherhood:
It's really challenging, but its working really well for me. The thing that goes is my time. I work and take care of Liam. Thats my challenge, trying to pry myself away and make sure that I also take care of myself and have fun. I have a ball with Liam."

"It's the best thing that I have done in my life," she admits, "and it really changes who you are. It changes your heart. It's made me tolerant of things I wasn't tolerant of before. It's a miracle. Anybody who has children talks like this so I'm not unique and I am not special, but I am in love with my child in a way that I have truly never been in love before. I can't explain it, but it's something that I am really happy that I didn't miss. I worry about being a single parent, and I worry about all the issues you have when you have a child."
About being thin:
"I guess I don't know the exact definition of anorexia. But I eat. I eat normally. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I don't have a messed up relationship with food. Am I anorexic? I guess my answer would have to be no."

"I don't look in the mirror that often, but when I do, I have to say, no I don't think if myself as too thin."

"What has been the most interesting, and frightening, aspect of what has happened to me is that everybody has been attacking somebody they thought had a disease. They mocked me and were cruel to me, even though they thought I had a disease. It was twisted and perverse."

"I am thin. I have always been thin. I probably will always be thin."

"I have always been really small. I went through a period around the fourth grade where I couldn't find jeans that fit. If they fit in length they didn't fit in the waste so I would buy them to fit in length because I certainly wasn't going to wear floods. But then they'd just hang down like big bell-bottoms."
Talking about Ally McBeal:
"I knew that if the show were to be a success that I would have to give up theater for a while, but I did it based on the part."

"I think when people meet me they think I'm depressed because I'm not anything like her. It can be a bit irritating because I don't want to be known as Ally McBeal, fictional T.V. character."

"I probably have a lot of things in common with Ally McBeal, but I would say mostly her lack of censorship. And her imagination, maybe."

"I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human."

"What I find Fascinating is that there can be TV shows featuring men, all kinds of men, and they are just characters. The moment a woman is on TV as a lead character, she is expected to be a role model, but we never said 'That is what women are like." We said that is what Ally is like."
Misc Quotes:
"I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband/baby thing. Besides I have a dog"

"There's this idea that if you're on television, you must not be a very good actress. That's a stigma that's going to take time to go away."

"Most people who come up are generous and nice. And those that hate the show (Ally McBeal), they don't bother me. They don't care."

"Whenever we (my friends) played house I would direct my friends and tell them to be more emotional and make them go out and start over. I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid - not in a bad way - but I would live a lot in my imagination. I made up characters and was always playing in my head. But it was never anything I thought one could do as a career. I never defined it as a goal."

"I think it's very natural to and very human to want a romantic partner. And, I hope that could find it someday, but I'm not miserable without it."

"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"