Maura Tierney Quotes

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

- Maura Tierney

What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.

- Maura Tierney

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

- Maura Tierney

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

- Maura Tierney

I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

- Maura Tierney

I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.

- Maura Tierney

The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.

- Maura Tierney

I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.

- Maura Tierney

I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.

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Being bald is no fun.

- Maura Tierney

I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.

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I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.

- Maura Tierney

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.

- Maura Tierney

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

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I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

- Maura Tierney

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

- Maura Tierney

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

- Maura Tierney

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

- Maura Tierney

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

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What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

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Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

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It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

- Maura Tierney

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

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I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

- Maura Tierney

Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.

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I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.

- Maura Tierney

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

- Maura Tierney

I love Martin Amis.

- Maura Tierney

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

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I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

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In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

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I get really nervous, really anxious.

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I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.

- Maura Tierney

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

- Maura Tierney

I don't have much patience with sick people.

- Maura Tierney