Maura Tierney

“I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.”

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

“Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.”

“Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.”

“I love Martin Amis.”

“I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.”

“The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.”

“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.”

“I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.”

“Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.”

“I'm not really the nurturer type.”

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