32 Quotes by Jean Smart

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the street, I have to be a little bit picky.

The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

'24' was so much fun. That was one of my all-time favourite jobs.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.