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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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 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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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 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 could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
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The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
