Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Lara Flynn Boyle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lara Flynn Boyle.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Lara Flynn Boyle is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Hayward in the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991). After portraying Stacy in Penelope Spheeris's comedy Wayne's World (1992), Boyle had a lead role in John Dahl's critically acclaimed neo-noir film Red Rock West (1993), followed by roles in Threesome (1994), Cafe Society (1995), and Happiness (1998). From 1997 to 2003, Boyle portrayed Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in the ABC television series The Practice for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

American - Actress | Born: March 24, 1970

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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?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

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I am a very selfish person.

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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.

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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

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

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I love receiving fan mail.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

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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.

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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

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I love talking about myself.

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[Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

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