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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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#back #because #community #desperate #family

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

— Tea Leoni

#bad one #i #just #little #ocean

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

— Tea Leoni

#i think #listen #must #one thing #painful

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#favorite #i #just #just do it #know

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#broke #child #feel #felt #first

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#am #because #critical #difficult #get

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#child #criticise #find #first #first time

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

— Tea Leoni

#early #glide #just #know #people

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#am #artist #first #first time #going

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. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#again #before #dreading #feelings #going