Lara Flynn Boyle Quotations

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

But all of the Irishmen I know are thin. And it's not the golf and Guinness that are making them thin. We are just a thin people.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

I'm definitely playing Helen as hungry and strong. I pray for the scenes where it's me up against four guys and I rip them to shreds.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I am a very selfish person.

I love receiving fan mail.

I love talking about myself.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

[Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.