Felicity Huffman Quotations

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?

She does love lavender because it's the color of transformation.

I'd call him and say, 'I don't know how to act this scene,' and he would tell me to fax it to him, ... Then he would walk me through it.

He'd never shot a movie before in his life, so the learning curve for him was phenomenal. He didn't know a close-up from a two-shot. But what he did know, and was doggedly committed to, was this story.

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

The only thing that I actually looked at differently was the effect of hormones and how that really changes your personality and who you think you are is actually a lot the makeup of hormones.

I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us. This year, having weathered that, we all went in knowing how to do it a little better.

I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us,

I think anyone who has been in the business longer than five or 10 years who didn't start out beautiful only has a 5% chance. So the odds are phenomenal and yes, I thought about giving up many times.

I saw that some people who were new into the feminine world weren't great at putting on makeup. So I decided that Bree wouldn't know the right base color and didn't know how to go pick up makeup at the store and is embarrassed about it anyway and doesn't like being out in public and hides most of the time. So those things dictated how I ended up looking.

I thought I had a good shot at all of them, except the Hispanic supermodel,

I'm so happy I can make a living at (acting), because I was never very good at math.

I'm shot into the stratosphere. You can't pasteurize the Academy Award. You can't negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I've been hopping around and screaming all morning.

We were riding so high that there's no place else to go but sort of down for a while, and God willing, up again. And I'd say everyone's entitled, of course, to their opinion. My experience has been the scripts have been great. I think it's been a wonderful year.

The only thing I remember going up onstage was my feet started sweating. I'm a runner. And my feet sweat.

What we are is colleagues. I got to know these women last year, and good friends you have for years and years. But I think we're developing friendships.

We went to a party and I couldn't get in. I was like, 'But I have a statue!' ... They were like, 'No, you can't get in.' There were too many people and the fire marshal had closed it off, so all the other Housewives were up there partying and I was downstairs. Poor me with my statue!

I've turned into one of those actresses, and I'm sorry,

The second time I didn't work for a year, I gave up any dream that looked like this. I want to thank Duncan Tucker for seeing me in an off-Broadway play and writing a beautiful movie that heals and brings understanding.

I've never been a beauty. It's not my thing. I mean, my face is fine, you know? So I really didn't have anything to lose or to risk.

And then it was a lot with the marketing of it and trying to get people to see it. He was the one who got Harvey (Weinstein) involved.

This part was an actor's wet dream. I loved doing it because it wasn't an issue movie. Sometimes in issue movies, you miss the truth of the human soul and the journey we go on.

As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.

It's a socially conscious film without being socially conscious.

It's the role of a lifetime. I would have begged, borrowed and stole just to have a shot at an audition for this movie.

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.

I hugged them, and they kissed me, ... We all support each other. A win for one is a win for all.

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

I never thought the show would be this huge. It's tough to even get a show on the air, let alone have people watch it week in and week out. We've really captured lightning in a bottle. This happens once in a gazillion Hollywood years.

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

I don't know what the f--k I'm talking about with parenting.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

The hormones don't change your voice, so you can look like Kate Moss but sound like James Earl Jones,

And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.