Quotes from Lara Flynn Boyle

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I am a very selfish person.

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

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

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

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

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

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.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

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 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.

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

I love talking about myself.

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?

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.