Tea Leoni Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

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

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.

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

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?'

It's kind of fun to be sexy.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Shopping turns me off.

I have always loathed working out.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

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.