Maura Tierney

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

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.

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'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

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

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Being bald is no fun.

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

I love Martin Amis.

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