A biography for Tea Leonihasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.”
“Shopping turns me off.”
“I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!”
“I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.”
“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.”