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Lara Flynn Boyle
American
Actress
About the author
I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Day
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Mom
I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Children
#Men
#Rest
I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Love
I love receiving fan mail.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Love
#Mail
I love talking about myself.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Love
#Talking
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Lie
#Kiss
#Sex
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Now
#Work
#Fun
#Friends
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Want
#World
#Mom
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Night
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Men
#Age
#Difference
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Time
#Irish
#Skin
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Work
#Home
#Opportunity
#Compliment
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Love
#Men
#Sense
#Women
#Humor
Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Talk
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Being
#Irish
#Chicago
#Growing up
I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Angels
#Kisses
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Idea
#Marriage
And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Women
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Women
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Time
#People
#Caring
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Coffee
#Smoking
Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Problems
Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Life
#Support
#Career
#Act
#Rest
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Now
#Years
#Body
#Diet
I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Practice
#Being
#Law
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Character
#Play
#Trying
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Time
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?
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Irish
#Holidays
To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Work
#School
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#People
#Will
#Day
#Pretty
#Lying
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#People
#Success
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.
Lara Flynn Boyle,
American
Actress
#Age