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.

When men attempt bold gestures generally it's considered romantic. When women do it it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information learning was a lot easier.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people their imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.