Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

Tennis lets you talk while you`re playing.

I really like to talk when I exercise.

Look, you can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I`ve worn that thing to every single awards show since!

I hate cooking, so my only concern was fitting a turkey in it on Thanksgiving and I can. (when asks when she will use her newly purchased 1950s stove).

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

Brad is much more of a workout person. He wakes up every morning and does his yoga and can`t go to bed without doing some kind of exercise.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

For me, there`s a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is. Secondary school kids didn`t want to be there. I skipped out one afternoon and went to the mall, and there were some of my students there. But they couldn`t report me, could they? - about the time she was student teaching

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

I think it`s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

If a stove like this was good enough for 50s moms, who made three meals a day, then it`s good enough for me! (when asked why she bought her 1950s stove.)