Maura Tierney Quotes
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I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.
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I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.
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My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.
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'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.
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Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.
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You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.
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I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.
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I get really nervous, really anxious.
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I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.
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I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.
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With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.
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I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.
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What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.
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I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.
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I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was it for me.
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It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.
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I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.
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I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
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I don't have much patience with sick people.
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The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.
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I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.
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Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.
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What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.
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I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.