MAURA TIERNEY

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

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

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

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.

I'm not really the nurturer type.

Being bald is no fun.

I love Martin Amis.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

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

Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.

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

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

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

I get really nervous, really anxious.

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

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

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