Julie Bowen Quotes
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I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
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I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.
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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."
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I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.
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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.
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I read books more than I go out.
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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.
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I'm most certainly not the Beatles.
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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.
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I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.
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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.
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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.
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There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
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In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.
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I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.
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I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.
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I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!
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I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.
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I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.
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I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.
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I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.
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[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.
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I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.
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Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
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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.
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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!
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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."
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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!
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I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.
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Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"
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