"I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'"

"No one's on at my time but infomercials."

"I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership."

"You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves."

"By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat."

"My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first."

"After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that."

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."