This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

When I was seven I asked my mom if I could be on TV and she said if I really wanted to I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT but my mom was like No she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

When I was going on auditions it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along I said 'You know what Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Well I was eight years old and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting commercials and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it and for the acting part of it she made me study for a year.

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

I think if I could be any superhero it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels so it's not gonna happen.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking I want to be a single mom.

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

In fact my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris France that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that we also thought I should get into theater acting so I tried it and the first audition I went on I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it I could do it.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls and so people were always knocking on my door and trying to get me out so we could play.

If I made a list of the people I admire Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.