Julie Bowen's Quotes

I'm not in shape.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

I've worn some ugly shoes.

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

People always tell me I have a lot of guy energy.

People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.