Teri Hatcher quotes:

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.

I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

When you look in the mirror, your 'appearance,' that outer you, is what you see first.

My daughter has probably gotten some benefit of being inspired by a woman who is willing to take on things. We travel. We travel to exotic places. I'm the first person to jump in the ocean with a whale. Even if I'm scared, I'll do it anyway, because I never wanted her to see fear, especially when she was younger.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.

I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That's bad for you.

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I think I'm a kind of a person who works hard at whatever I do, literally from being a waitress to being on television. I always try to give 110 percent to whatever it is I'm doing.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty.

When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

I have been really fortunate to have some great experiences in my life, and I look forward to more, and I would really like to have someone special to share those with.

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course

Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the world they're not my only attribute.

I feel like Im too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

I'm really clear about my priority in life-it's being a mom.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away.

The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

Tired people aren't witty

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.