"It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it."

"When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible."

"People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it."

"I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow."

"But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing."

"Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer."

"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."

"This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!"