Felicity Huffman Quotes

• On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

  Felicity Huffman

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• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Women, Mortality, Improve

• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, ‘Was I thin at that time or fat?’ And it doesn’t seem to let up.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Women, Pressure, Rating

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women’s health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Health

  Tags in President, Care, Supporting

• Right after ‘Desperate’ sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That’s really something great to be a part of.

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  Tags in Something, Great, Really

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

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  Tags in Exercise, Guilt

• Just let your skin breathe.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Skin, Breathe

• It’s only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Spending, Feel, Brain

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren’t big enough.

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actress, Pretty, Enough

• I think I’ve always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I’m actually there I’m like, ‘Hey, pretty good, huh?’

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  Tags in Think, Good

• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

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  Tags in Married, Fantastic

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it’s how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Person, Better, Balance

• I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters – that’s eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Beautiful, Support, Foundation

• I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Kids

• I can’t wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, ‘No, don’t do it.’ I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, ‘Why did you do that?’

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Good, Think, Better

• I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure, Already

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women’s health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Women, Across, Like

• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  Felicity Huffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Support, Definition, Republicans

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I’d been doing lately, I said: ‘Gee, I have two kids. I’m usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

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  Tags in Between, Usually, Guilty

• Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn’t good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Powerful, Person, Good

Felicity Huffman (22)

Birth:	9th December, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Felicity Kendall Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, USA. She is an American film, stage, and television actress. She drew critical praise for her performance as a transgender woman in the independent film Transamerica. The role earned her a Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, National Board of Review, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her role in several films include: The Spanish Prisoner, Georgia Rule, Phoebe in Wonderland, Rudderless, and Cake. Her role in television include: Golden Years, Sports Night, Desperate Housewives, and American Crime.

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