Ann Dowd

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get…

— Ann Dowd

The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.

— Ann Dowd

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first…

— Ann Dowd

When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one…

— Ann Dowd

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean…

— Ann Dowd

Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere…

— Ann Dowd

When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.

— Ann Dowd

Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of…

— Ann Dowd

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

— Ann Dowd

The Leftovers was an absolutely extraordinary experience. After the first season of learning to work with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and…

— Ann Dowd

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm…

— Ann Dowd

My parents were strict but loving.

— Ann Dowd

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune,…

— Ann Dowd

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

— Ann Dowd

The lovely thing is that now being offered things is just a blast. In the beginning, I'd be offered something and be…

— Ann Dowd

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

— Ann Dowd

I have a family and children I adore and a husband who's wonderful.

— Ann Dowd

I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but…

— Ann Dowd

Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not…

— Ann Dowd

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

— Ann Dowd

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

— Ann Dowd

When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect…

— Ann Dowd

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

— Ann Dowd

The first day of shooting, you always want to turn around and go home and say, "What was I thinking?!," and put…

— Ann Dowd

In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't…

— Ann Dowd