Quotes By Lara Flynn Boyle

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I love talking about myself.

I am a very selfish person.

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.

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.

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

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

I love receiving fan mail.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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