Felicity Huffman Quotes (27 Quotes)

The second time I didn't work for a year, I gave up any dream that looked like this. I want to thank Duncan Tucker for seeing me in an off-Broadway play and writing a beautiful movie that heals and brings understanding.

The only thing that I actually looked at differently was the effect of hormones and how that really changes your personality and who you think you are is actually a lot the makeup of hormones.

I'm shot into the stratosphere. You can't pasteurize the Academy Award. You can't negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I've been hopping around and screaming all morning.

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

The hormones don't change your voice, so you can look like Kate Moss but sound like James Earl Jones,

I'm so happy I can make a living at (acting), because I was never very good at math.

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

Best-comedy-actress winner Felicity Huffman ( Desperate Housewives ) was still in shock over her win as well as the nasty tumble her fellow housewife Marcia Cross took backstage after the cast presented an award. She fell flat on her face, ... if Marcia wins and she just broke her face, her fianc was going to have to accept the award.

I'd call him and say, 'I don't know how to act this scene,' and he would tell me to fax it to him, ... Then he would walk me through it.

This part was an actor's wet dream. I loved doing it because it wasn't an issue movie. Sometimes in issue movies, you miss the truth of the human soul and the journey we go on.

And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

I thought I had a good shot at all of them, except the Hispanic supermodel,

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

I've never been a beauty. It's not my thing. I mean, my face is fine, you know So I really didn't have anything to lose or to risk.

What we are is colleagues. I got to know these women last year, and good friends you have for years and years. But I think we're developing friendships.

I think anyone who has been in the business longer than five or 10 years who didn't start out beautiful only has a 5 chance. So the odds are phenomenal and yes, I thought about giving up many times.

She does love lavender because it's the color of transformation.

Give. Me. Your tie.

We were riding so high that there's no place else to go but sort of down for a while, and God willing, up again. And I'd say everyone's entitled, of course, to their opinion. My experience has been the scripts have been great. I think it's been a wonderful year.

I never thought the show would be this huge. It's tough to even get a show on the air, let alone have people watch it week in and week out. We've really captured lightning in a bottle. This happens once in a gazillion Hollywood years.

To make her own life easier, Lynette will attempt to chill Nina out with massages and aromatherapy, ... But finally, she figures that what Nina really needs is (sex).

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

I saw that some people who were new into the feminine world weren't great at putting on makeup. So I decided that Bree wouldn't know the right base color and didn't know how to go pick up makeup at the store and is embarrassed about it anyway and doesn't like being out in public and hides most of the time. So those things dictated how I ended up looking.

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.