Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

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.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

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

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

Being bald is no fun.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I'm not really the nurturer type.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

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.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I love Martin Amis.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

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

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

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.

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.