Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Julie Bowen

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

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.

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 would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

I've worn some ugly shoes.

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

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

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I have a big mouth.

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 grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

Baltimore is a great place.

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.

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

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.

I read books more than I go out.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

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

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 had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

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'm incredibly lucky.

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

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.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

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

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

I'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.

I consider a day without running a crappy day.

I'm not in shape.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

I love my job.

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.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.