Tea Leoni Quotes

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

Parent, Listen, Painful

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

Good, Acting, Stuff

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

Liars, Child, Brilliant

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.
Tea Leoni

Mother, Thought, Become

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
Tea Leoni

Point, Shoes, Golf

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.
Tea Leoni

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

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.
Tea Leoni

Two, Between, Looking

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.
Tea Leoni

Men, Heart, Mean

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.
Tea Leoni

Character, Someone, Play

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

Else, Somebody, Pay

I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni

Working, Loathed

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.
Tea Leoni

Work, Mean, Thought

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

Live, Walking, Jogging

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.
Tea Leoni

Family, Moving, Hard

I'm not a huge fan of my work.
Tea Leoni

Work, Fan, Huge

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

Movie, Quite, Ready

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

Life, Days, Gym

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

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.
Tea Leoni

Life, Time, Saying

It's kind of fun to be sexy.
Tea Leoni

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
Tea Leoni

Work, Powerful, Director

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

Career, Show, Early

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.
Tea Leoni

Life, Time, Acting

Shopping turns me off.
Tea Leoni

Off, Shopping, Turns

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 25, 1966

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