Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

I try to watch the show every week and improve upon myself. I've become a fan.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Youve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world it needs to be illustrated.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!