Tea Leoni quotes:

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.

Shopping turns me off.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett

I have always loathed working out.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny

Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

I have always loathed working out

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

It's kind of fun to be sexy.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.