Top 30 Lara Flynn Boyle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am a very selfish person.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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2. “I’m not afraid to look like a fool – and I think when you’re not afraid, you never do.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

3. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

6. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

7. “I love children and I love men, but I can’t commit to either for the rest of my life.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

9. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

10. “I’ve had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

12. “I love talking about myself.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

13. “I spent every day just praying that I didn’t look like a big dork on camera.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

14. “I’m afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

16. “I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it’s just an idea.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

17. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

18. “I’m the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

19. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

20. “I love receiving fan mail.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

22. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

23. “Everybody wants to solve everybody’s problems.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

25. “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?”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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26. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

27. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

28. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

29. “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.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle