Téa Leoni Quotes

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• But I’ve never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I’ve been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I’m not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

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• I have always loathed working out.

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• I’m not a huge fan of my work.

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Téa Leoni (29)

Birth:	25th February, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Leoni was born in New York City. Her mother, Emily Ann, was a dietician and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer of the firm Fulbright & Jaworski. Leoni's paternal grandfather was of Italian and English descent; he was a nephew of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni.

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