"Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."

"One of the greatest gifts my job has given me is that my mother, who gave up her entire life for me, doesn't have to work any more. I'm now in a position to repay her for her devotion."

"My biggest complaint is school when it's Send-the-roses day, somebody's always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone who hadn't gotten any."

"[In horror movies] I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled! "

"To me, the scariest elements of horror films are the things that could really happen. And what is more scary than high school? ... What I like about the show is that it reminds you it's O.K. to be different. What people think isn't necessarily true. If people walk away with half of that, we've done our job."

"Horror films are where women can shine and have a chance to lead. They always save the day in these films."

"It's so easy to fall for it all because people remind you constantly that as fast as it comes, it can go. And I think there is this sort of paranoia, this need to keep working. And I know that I felt it, and for the first three years of the show, I never had more than a week off, except for Christmas. That was it."

"You've got to think there's something better I can do with my time than log on to the Internet and say, 'Ooo, let's find out about me!' I think that would frighten me a little bit."

"I am militant about drugs. You want to do 'em? You're out of my life."

"[The world "feminist"] makes me think of women who don't shave their legs."

"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"

"We need to show that women can be funny, smart and all-around powerful. Of course, we always knew we could, people just didnt give us the chance."

"I would go to college to be a journalist. I always wanted to write for Time or Newsweek."

"You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try."

"I fear cats, because the first year on my show, everyone got two pictures when their credit came up with their name. I got my picture and a cat. I never understood it. So, I fear cats."

"Buffy has a life that I can really understand. You want to go to the prom but, at the same time, you have work obligations. Do you have a date, or do you go sit in the cemetery all night?"

"It's funny in the sense of he'll say to me, 'You don't understand. You're doing a movie. I've been on my feet all day.' I'm like, 'For real? For real I don't understand?' So that's kind of odd. And the times are funny because I'm on nights and he's more organized in terms of...or last week he was getting out of the house at like 3:30 in the morning." [On her doing movies and husband Freddie doing his show.]

"I'll kiss anything. Guys, girls...dogs. "

"I'm so grateful I don't have to go looking for a man on a Saturday night. I was always terrible at chatting up men." [on why she's happy she's married]