Téa Leoni Quotes

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

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

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• It’s kind of fun to be s*xy.

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• 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.

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

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• Shopping turns me off.

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• 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.

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

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• Well, I don’t find glamour and clothing relevant.

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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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