Cynthia Nixon Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

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.

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.

I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.

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.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

I've always been wary of marriage.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

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.

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?

I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.

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

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

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.

[Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's over with now. I'm going to make wifehood my career."

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

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.

I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

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

I don't even want to go back to '81.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

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.

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

Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

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

Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

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.