Quotes from Christina Applegate

With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.

I go to frozen pizza or soy chicken nuggets when I need a five-minute meal.

I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.

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.

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.'

I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life.

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

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.

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.

For breakfast, I juice a big green juice, and I try to get in as much raw food and protein as I can, obviously plant proteins and legumes, but sometimes it's late at night, and there's a frozen pizza in there, and sometimes it's all you've got! You don't have the energy to chop up a bunch of vegetables.

We grow our own vegetables.

We're a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That's her choice. That's how she eats. We're really conscious about what we buy.

If you have insomnia, it's important to know you're not alone; there are millions of people also struggling with their sleep. Talk about what you're going through with others, including your doctor, and continue trying new things to help manage your insomnia.

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.

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

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

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships.

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life.