I don't have a lot of discipline.
— Katherine Heigl
A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
I'm terrible with patience.
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.
The world is still very bigoted.
I've had paranoid panic attacks.
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
