Christina Applegate Quotes:

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.

Topics: Dream, Beach, Coffee, Shack, Coffee Houses

I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

Topics: Cute, Home, Nursing

I used to say... 'Don't sweat the small stuff -- not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.

source: - "Christina Applegate: Why I had a double mastectomy". www.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

Topics: Spiritual, Animal, Journey, Sweat The Small Stuff, Big Stuff

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?

source: - "Fur: Get Me Not!". The PETA Interview, www.peta.org.

Topics: Holiday, Animal, People

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Children, Struggle, Vagabonds, Babysitter

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

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Important

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldnt talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Topics: Mother, Jobs, Kmart, Consonants

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

Topics: Mom, Clothes, Car, Expensive Clothes, New Car

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Children, Father

I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

source: - "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

Topics: Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity, Old Person, Detection

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.

Topics: Christmas, Love Is, Light

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Children, Growing Up

I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.

source: - "Christina Applegate On Eating Well, Surviving Cancer And Finding Joy". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

Topics: Beautiful, Women, Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Children, My Children, Persons

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

Topics: School, Kids, Parent, Group Of Friends

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Topics: Cancer, Healthy, Care, Breast Cancer, Healthy Diet

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

source: - "EXCLUSIVE: Applegate Underwent Breast Removal to Stop Cancer". Interview with Brian O'keefe, Lee Ferran, abcnews.go.com. August 19, 2008.

Topics: Cancer, Healing, Thinking, Wallowing

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

source: - "Christina Applegate's Life After Breast Cancer" by Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. September 19, 2013.

Topics: Fun, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Inspirational, Breast Cancer Survivor

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

Topics: Pregnancy, Motherhood, Men

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.

Topics: Christmas, Drink

There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.

source: - "Christina Applegate Life Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview to Origin Magazine, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Laughter, Darkness

Thought is creative. Be mindful of where your attention is, because the universe doesn't know the difference. It only knows where your focus is. Life will surely manifest where you put that attention.

source: - "Christina Applegate LIfe Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Differences, Creative, Focus

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

source: - "Christina Applegate LIfe Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Moments, Ifs

Take no moment for granted.

source: - "Christina Applegate Life Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview to Origin Magazine, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Moments, Granted

I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

source: - "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

Topics: Cute, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

Topics: Laughter, Medicine, Comedy

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

Topics: Men, Brain, Different

I've always tried to be pretty healthy, eating well and exercising regularly. I definitely give myself treats.

source: - "Christina Applegate LIfe Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Exercise, Eating Well, Giving

Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

source: - "Christina Applegate Life Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview to Origin Magazine, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Daughter, Laughing, Way

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

source: - "Christina Applegate LIfe Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

Topics: Long, Healthy, Together

Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.

source: - Interview with Megan Masters, deadline.com. June 16, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Winning, Play Hard

Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.

Topics: Running, Daughter, Years, Playing Around, Treadmills