The first day of shooting, you always want to turn around and go home and say, "What was I thinking?!," and put your head under a pillow and weep. I could maybe go five weeks, and then the nerves would… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
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 Image
