Lara Flynn Boyle

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

I love receiving fan mail.

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.

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

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

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

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

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 am a very selfish person.

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

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.