“During my pregnancy, I didn't train at all. I wanted to take advantage...” — Mackenzie Dern Quote

“During my pregnancy, I didn't train at all. I wanted to take advantage of those nine months and enjoy the time off with my growing family.”

“I don't think people are so intimidated by me. I'm always smiling to everyone. I'm not the scariest person.”

“I feel like with Tecia, I'm on the kimura and I'm doing it, I feel like 98 percent of the people would tap. You have to be a little bit mean like just rip it. Maybe they'll tear their shoulder and have to have surgery or something like that. Of course, that's not my goal but we're all adults here. They're going to try to hurt me.”

“It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.”

“I've done at least 22 West End shows and each of those takes up nine months of the year.”

“If you think of 'The Repair Shop,' we're filming almost about nine months of the year.”