54+ Julie Bowen Quotes On Success, Friendship And Relationships

Julie Bowen is an American actress best known for her role as Claire Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. She has also starred in films such as Happy Gilmore, Multiplicity, and Joe Somebody. She has won numerous awards for her work on Modern Family, including six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two wins. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Julie Bowen on life, success, leadership.

Top 10 Julie Bowen Quotes

1. It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
2. I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
3. Baltimore is a great place.
4. I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.
5. I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.
6. I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!
7. In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.
8. As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
9. I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.
10. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

Julie Bowen Short Quotes

• My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.
• I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.
• I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
• I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.
• I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.
• I read books more than I go out.
• Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.
• I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

Julie Bowen Quotes About Love

Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more." — Julie Bowen

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie! — Julie Bowen

I've loved doing "E.R." for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. — Julie Bowen

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. — Julie Bowen

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much. — Julie Bowen

Julie Bowen Quotes About People

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media. — Julie Bowen

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things. — Julie Bowen

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! — Julie Bowen

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment. — Julie Bowen

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house. — Julie Bowen

Julie Bowen Quotes About Play

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores. — Julie Bowen

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned. — Julie Bowen

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun. — Julie Bowen

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games. — Julie Bowen

Julie Bowen Famous Quotes And Sayings

I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks. — Julie Bowen

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second. — Julie Bowen

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it. — Julie Bowen

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes. — Julie Bowen

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine. — Julie Bowen

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads. — Julie Bowen

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats. — Julie Bowen

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. — Julie Bowen

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do." — Julie Bowen

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on. — Julie Bowen

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather. — Julie Bowen

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back." — Julie Bowen

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do. — Julie Bowen

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?" — Julie Bowen

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door! — Julie Bowen

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute. — Julie Bowen

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day. — Julie Bowen

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings. — Julie Bowen

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better. — Julie Bowen

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to. — Julie Bowen

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist. — Julie Bowen

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying. — Julie Bowen

Life Lessons by Julie Bowen

1. Julie Bowen has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as she has achieved success in both television and film.
2. She has also demonstrated that it is possible to balance a successful career with a happy family life, as she is a mother of three.
3. Finally, her work has shown that it is possible to be both successful and kind, as she is known for her charitable work.