Quotes from Mayim Bialik


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I don't look like most women in the industry.


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.


To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.


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.


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.


You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.


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'm a pretty quiet person.


I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.


I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.


I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.


I don't care much about conforming.


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.


As a kid, I felt really weird.


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.


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.


Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.


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've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.


I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.