Tea Leoni

“I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.”

“Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.”

“Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.”

“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.”

“I have always loathed working out.”

“At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.”

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

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

“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'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“I'm not a huge fan of my work.”

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

“It's kind of fun to be sexy.”

“Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.”