Tea Leoni
It's kind of fun to be sexy.
I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
Shopping turns me off.
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.
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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.
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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.
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.
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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.
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
I have always loathed working out.
I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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.
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.
Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.
I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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.Collection: Children
What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.Collection: Meaningful
I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either.Collection: Wells
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.Collection: Thinking
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?'Collection: Shoes
I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.Collection: Glamour
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticize 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.Collection: Children
I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]Collection: Daughter
Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.Collection: Pain