Top 18 Tea Leoni Quotes

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

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

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

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 have always loathed working out.

Well, I don’t find glamour and clothing relevant.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I’m not a huge fan of my work.

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 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.

Shopping turns me off.

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 was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.