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All Quotes by author - 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. "
Want
Show
Say
" Being bald is no fun. "
Bald
Fun
No Fun
" 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. "
Comedy
Skill
Be Nice
" Everyone in my family has seen me cry before. "
Everyone
Seen
Me
" 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. "
School
High School
Me
" I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people. "
People
Funny
Being Funny
" I don't have much patience with sick people. "
Much
Sick
People
" 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. "
Time
Acting
School
" I get really nervous, really anxious. "
Nervous
Really
Get
" I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there. "
Thanksgiving
Boston
House
" 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. "
You
Think
Getting Old
" I love Martin Amis. "
Love
I Love
Martin
" I'm not really the nurturer type. "
Really
Type
" 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. "
Politics
Personality
Boston
" 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. "
Boy
Like
Therapy
" 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. "
Hand
Say
Control
" I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager. "
Over
Parts
Phone
" I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus. "
Doing
Up
Focus
" I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult. "
Infidelity
Marriage
Think
" It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it. "
Position
Lucky
Life-Changing
" I've been doing dramas for a long time. "
Long
Long Time
Time
" 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. "
Think
How
Been
" I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched. "
Working
Dance
Drama
" I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved. "
About
Which
Loved
" 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. "
Saw
Took
First
" 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. "
Wish
Anxiety
Cooking
" I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway. "
Everything
You
Silly
" My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer. "
Go
Everybody
Lot
" 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. "
People
Thought
Time
" Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem. "
Complicated
Very
Problem
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