Teri Hatcher Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

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.

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

I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.

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.

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

Tired people aren't witty

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.

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

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.

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.

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

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.