The Leftovers was an absolutely extraordinary experience. After the first season of learning to work with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and all of the writers, you didn't question it because it all made sense. Because Damon knows those characters… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
Damon Lindelof is hypnotizing. His imagination is without limits, and Tom Perrotta, as well. You begin to just trust, completely, where the story is going, knowing that you're entirely safe in the truthfulness of it. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. — Ann Dowd Copy Share
The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day. — Ann Dowd Copy Share
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop. — Ann Dowd Copy Share
Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
The Leftovers was an absolutely extraordinary experience. After the first season of learning to work with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and all of… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass. — Ann Dowd Copy Share
The lovely thing is that now being offered things is just a blast. In the beginning, I'd be offered something and be like, "What?… — Ann Dowd Copy Share
