Holly Marie Combs Quotes

It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it's so much more difficult.

- Holly Marie Combs

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of it's time.

- Holly Marie Combs

The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.

- Holly Marie Combs

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

- Holly Marie Combs

Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.

- Holly Marie Combs

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.

- Holly Marie Combs

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!

- Holly Marie Combs

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

- Holly Marie Combs

A lot of my snacks are healthy. I love things like hummus, carrots, and celery, but I will never give up potato chips.

- Holly Marie Combs

In between my first and second child, Pilates helped my body a lot.

- Holly Marie Combs

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

- Holly Marie Combs

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

- Holly Marie Combs

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

- Holly Marie Combs

I'm definitely a sushi person. I know I can eat a lot and still be fairly healthy.

- Holly Marie Combs

I was a vegetarian through many of my teen years and easily revert back to that occasionally, but my immune system is usually happier with a bit of real meat.

- Holly Marie Combs

TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.

- Holly Marie Combs

Orca family members belong together at home in the ocean, not isolated in tiny tanks at SeaWorld. If you believe that a mother should never have to know the pain of having her child torn away from her, boycott SeaWorld.

- Holly Marie Combs

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

- Holly Marie Combs

At this point, I can almost never see myself saying no to a con or a 'Charmed' reunion because it's so important to so many people I've already met personally.

- Holly Marie Combs

Life as an only child can be a bit lonely, and when I had Finley, I decided that if I could give him a big family, I wanted to as much as possible.

- Holly Marie Combs

My husband is very supportive - he wants me to work but understands I also want to be with the kids.

- Holly Marie Combs

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

- Holly Marie Combs

To travel America and see everything it has to offer, with my best friend, sounds like the perfect road trip.

- Holly Marie Combs

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

- Holly Marie Combs

In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true.

- Holly Marie Combs

Before you have a baby, friends tell you, 'Sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are.

- Holly Marie Combs