Actress Quotes

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

'TV Guide' is smart to aim toward women. More women will go there to find out what's on - just like when guys won't ask for directions, a woman will break out the map.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Above all, ignore the audience.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.