Top 50 Cynthia Nixon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.”

— Cynthia Nixon

2. “My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.”

— Cynthia Nixon

3. “Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.”

— Cynthia Nixon

4. “Cancer is really hard to go through and it’s really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.”

— Cynthia Nixon

5. “I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I’m thrilled to eat in a soup.”

— Cynthia Nixon

6. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don’t go get your mammograms.”

— Cynthia Nixon

7. “Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body – as that can make all the difference in the world.”

— Cynthia Nixon

8. “Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.”

— Cynthia Nixon

9. “I’m so not a financial person.”

— Cynthia Nixon

10. “I had a lumpectomy. It wasn’t that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.”

— Cynthia Nixon

11. “I am definitely as happy as I’ve ever been. Happier, I would say, than I’ve ever been.”

— Cynthia Nixon

12. “My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don’t do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.”

— Cynthia Nixon

13. “I think women still want to be married. But I don’t think they’ll do anything to get married anymore.”

— Cynthia Nixon

14. “I can’t go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.”

— Cynthia Nixon

15. “I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.”

— Cynthia Nixon

16. “I am not a redhead, I’m a blonde.”

— Cynthia Nixon

17. “Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they’re 15 they can play 11 or when they’re 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn’t have.”

— Cynthia Nixon

18. “I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, ‘Well, I have some – it’s not such great news, but here it is, but it’s very small and we’re just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you’ll probably have radiation.’”

— Cynthia Nixon

19. “There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.”

— Cynthia Nixon

20. “I’m a very big public school advocate.”

— Cynthia Nixon

21. “Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it’s this: follow your gut, ask questions, don’t be complacent.”

— Cynthia Nixon

22. “My mother has battled breast cancer three times.”

— Cynthia Nixon

23. “I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can’t and shouldn’t be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.”

— Cynthia Nixon

24. “Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.”

— Cynthia Nixon

25. “I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.”

— Cynthia Nixon

26. “There are a lot of myths about gay people.”

— Cynthia Nixon

27. “I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn’t a struggle, there wasn’t an attempt to suppress.”

— Cynthia Nixon

28. “I feel that between my experience and my mother’s, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.”

— Cynthia Nixon

29. “I don’t define myself. I’m just a woman in love with another woman.”

— Cynthia Nixon

30. “Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren’t mobilizing so much because it’s so complicated and it’s difficult to understand.”

— Cynthia Nixon

31. “Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.”

— Cynthia Nixon

32. “The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.”

— Cynthia Nixon

33. “I do tend to be an analyzer. I’m an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.”

— Cynthia Nixon

34. “I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I’m getting better about it as I’m getting older.”

— Cynthia Nixon

35. “Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn’t noticed.”

— Cynthia Nixon

36. “I’m fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.”

— Cynthia Nixon

37. “I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it’s in the trades the next day – it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.”

— Cynthia Nixon

38. “While I don’t often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have ‘chosen’ is to be in a gay relationship.”

— Cynthia Nixon

39. “I’m a total theater junkie – whether I’m working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.”

— Cynthia Nixon

40. “I don’t really want to get married to get married pretend.”

— Cynthia Nixon

41. “I’ve seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.”

— Cynthia Nixon

42. “Even though I’m over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.”

— Cynthia Nixon

43. “What I do for exercise sort of depends on what’s happening in the rest of my life.”

— Cynthia Nixon

44. “A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.”

— Cynthia Nixon

45. “I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.”

— Cynthia Nixon

46. “I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I’m a public figure.”

— Cynthia Nixon

47. “Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don’t want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.”

— Cynthia Nixon

48. “I love a warm bath at the end of a day.”

— Cynthia Nixon

49. “I don’t have Steve. There is no having the Steve.”

— Cynthia Nixon

50. “I have a lot of shoes.”

— Cynthia Nixon