Top 30 Maura Tierney Quotes

I’ve been doing dramas for a long time.

I went to ‘Godspell’ when I was 10 – my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was it for me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Being bald is no fun.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

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

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That’s not everybody’s answer.

‘The Whole Truth’ was a mistake.

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.

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

Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.

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.

I love Martin Amis.

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

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

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.

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.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

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.

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.

I’m not really the nurturer type.

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