Maura Tierney quotes:

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Being bald is no fun.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

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.

I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

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.

I'm dating somebody. I am enjoying it very much, and having a really nice time at the moment. I'm very happy.

I'm not really the nurturer type.