Tea Leoni Quotes
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
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I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.
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When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
