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I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.
The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.
Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.
I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.
I think Kathie Lee Gifford had a line at Wal-mart, and Monica Lewinsky had a line of handbags.
Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.
I'm not saying I'm ungrateful for fame at all. I'm just saying it's a crazy emotional experience.
When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.
Don't feel bad if you never 'get famous.' Don't freak out if you have less than 300 Twitter followers.
If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.
I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
I had no idea that our love of fame was going to display itself in a high political office on a world stage.
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
Maybe for every 100 fans who thought about saying something nasty to singer Justin Bieber this month, maybe 200 did.
Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.
I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.
I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'
I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.
I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'
You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.
Augmented reality, and even just the iPad-touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.
There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.
I was a regular, so that meant I was working every week on the series. Which was fine. 'Family Ties' was a fantastic series. It's all good.
A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
I wanted to find a way to intelligently argue that we should be valuing our own skills and talents instead of valuing the number of people we can get to look at us.
Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.
I put my name into the Google search bar. Justine Bateman... And the auto-complete comes up. The auto-complete says that the top option is, 'Justine Bateman looks old.'
They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.
'Family Ties,' to me, was strictly '80s. It was from the beginning of the '80s until the end of the '80s, and it was very specific to that time. Ronald Reagan was president.
The character - character - of Mallory on 'Family Ties' was a year younger than me. A fictitious year younger than me. So, I am not 21. I am not getting into the club. Boom.
I've never been interested in changing my face. I hear of those glycolic peels and the Botox and plastic surgeries, and I am just, like, 'Oh my God.' I just could never do that.
You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It's strange.
My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can't get enough of him.
All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I've worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life.
Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.
The rule was, the kids in this agency had to do 15 commercials or something before they sent them out on a theatrical audition, for a television show. And I had only done two commercials.
When you have to write a letter, you're automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can't help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.
You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody's like, 'Oh come on in!'
It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.
When I was super famous, there was definitely a distinction between how one was treated if they were on TV and how one was treated if they were on film. I don't know that that distinction exists as much now.
There's an attention paid to the fame - the sort of sheath that's on you, this sort of cloud that's covering over you - and that's what people want to touch. It's not even really you that they want to touch.
There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.
The technology we have available is not being used, and we don't have to tell stories in a line anymore. We can tell them in the shape of a tree. I can't stand to see it not happen, and I'm going to make it happen.
I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'
There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.
I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
That first CS class I took, I felt like I was drowning. It's like being taught how to swim by being thrown off deck. The continual self-talk that I have had with myself while I've been here is, pull yourself together and get this done.
I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.
My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they're getting a lot of retread... a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.