26 Quotes by Tea Leoni
- If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
- It's kind of fun to be sexy.
- People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
- Shopping turns me off.
- I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
- The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
- Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.
- 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.
- Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
- Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
- 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.
- Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
- Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
- At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
- I'm not a huge fan of my work.
- But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I have always loathed working out.
- I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
- 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.
- I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
- 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.
- I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
- 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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