Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

Nicole Ari Parker
Nicole Ari Parker

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.