Teri Hatcher Quotations

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

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 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 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.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

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

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

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.

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

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

I think I'm a kind of a person who works hard at whatever I do, literally from being a waitress to being on television. I always try to give 110 percent to whatever it is I'm doing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

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.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

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

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 love clothes that, when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

I was so nervous. All I could think of was, 'I don't deserve a lesson with Tiger Woods.' But he instantly put me at ease and gave me some good pointers.

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.

I have been really fortunate to have some great experiences in my life, and I look forward to more, and I would really like to have someone special to share those with.

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.

She just put that all over me and it smells good and she said maybe it would get me a boyfriend,

she got into a tearful, heated conversation on her cell phone.

I agree with her about oil. To me, perfume is kind of like a put-on thing, like deodorant, you know? 'I'm gonna spray myself with this and it's gonna cover up whatever's wrong with me.' I think oil is the opposite. Oil is more organic and kind of a part of you.

H Stern was one of the first people to let me borrow their diamonds to wear to an awards show. At the Emmys last year, when I was such a has-been, no one would give me a dress.

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.

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.

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

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

We're not un-friends, ... I mean we're not not friends.

When women get too skinny, like Teri Hatcher, it will show on your face and age you. I think women look very strange when they lose a lot of weight and start to look very masculine.

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

At the end of the day, there was no way I was not going to put this girl first, before whatever damage might be done to me.

Even though it wasn't to my crime, it was because of my crime and that made me feel really validated. It made me feel that I wasn't crazy. Somehow it might be easier to accept that you're crazy and you made it all up than to admit that it happened. But I knew he would not have gone to prison if I hadn't come forward.

I sent her a hard hat filled with Milky Ways and Snickers and whatever; she eats so much candy this girl.

People expect that if you're pretty, successful, the boyfriend mission should be easy.

falsely alleged that she engages in sex romps on a regular basis with a series of men in a VW van parked outside her L.A. home for this purpose.

Without her I would not be as good or as funny.

I knew he would not have gone to prison if I hadn't come forward.

I'm glad you could join me tonight to celebrate the efforts of this community of artists and volunteers. I like to think we're all here because we believe in the value of art in our lives, and especially in our children's lives.

Desperate Housewives ... A good shave is sexy -- so clean and smooth. I've never had a man shave my legs, but I'd be willing to try it.

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 didn't intend to talk about this with you. But it is something that's been surfacing with me for the past three years. This is something I've tried to hide my whole life.

All I know is that I'm on that show every week and I'm, like, a big deal on the Internet. What more could I want?

It struck me so strongly that -- oh my God, he's been doing this for 35 years! I was just blown over by this girl's pain. I thought, boy, that's really close to being me, any day of the week. I could feel that sort of pain.

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

This is a very Susan moment, isn't it? I try to claim that I'm not my character, but I really am.

I couldn't have been a bigger has-been. Two years ago I was crying on my kitchen floor thinking I'll never be able to pay my mortgage.

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.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

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

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 girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

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.

Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.

I'm really clear about my priority in life-it's being a mom.

I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy

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

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. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.

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.

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

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.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

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

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

Tired people aren't witty

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

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

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.