Julie Bowen Quotes

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.