Tea Leoni Quotes

#1. Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

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#2. I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either

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#3. Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

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#4. I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

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#5. Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me ... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

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#6. I'm not a huge fan of my work.

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#7. I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

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#8. But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

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#9. David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'

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#10. People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

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#11. I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

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#12. I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

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#13. I have always loathed working out.

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#14. In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

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#15. Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

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#16. If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

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#17. It's kind of fun to be sexy.

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#18. I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

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#19. What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

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#20. At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

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#21. The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

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#22. Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

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#23. There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.

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#24. But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

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#25. Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

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#26. I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

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#27. Shopping turns me off.

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#28. I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

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#29. And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

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#30. I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

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#31. Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

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#32. I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

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#33. I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

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#34. It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

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#35. First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

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#36. Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

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