I'm good with a script.

I'm a pretty quiet person.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I don't care much about conforming.

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

I don't look like most women in the industry.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

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