CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships.

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

We're a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That's her choice. That's how she eats. We're really conscious about what we buy.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

There was a time when I was like, 'I'm a dramatic actor,' 'I'm a comedian'... There's no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over.

I've lived with insomnia for many years, but I'm making it a priority to address my sleep problems.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

For breakfast, I juice a big green juice, and I try to get in as much raw food and protein as I can, obviously plant proteins and legumes, but sometimes it's late at night, and there's a frozen pizza in there, and sometimes it's all you've got! You don't have the energy to chop up a bunch of vegetables.

They make really great synthetic fur - you really don't need real fur. And it's cheaper, so why spend the money?

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life.

I go to frozen pizza or soy chicken nuggets when I need a five-minute meal.

When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young women were getting it, and people weren't understanding that.

My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn't afford a babysitter... she was part of this theater group.