I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
— Mayim Bialik
I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.
I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.
There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
I don't look like most women in the industry.
I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.
My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.
I don't care much about conforming.
Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.
It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.
I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
As a kid, I felt really weird.
It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.
I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
I'm generally intimidated by adults.
I like bold colors but usually wear black.
The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
I'm a pretty quiet person.
One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.
You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.
I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.
I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.
A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.
I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.
