Top 13 Felicity Huffman Quotes

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, ‘I want to do movies’ to ‘I want to work. In whatever.’

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women’s health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

Just let your skin breathe.

A win for one is a win for all – and I’m not just saying that because Dumas did.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women’s health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters – that’s eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

Right after ‘Desperate’ sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That’s really something great to be a part of.

It’s only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren’t big enough.

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I’d been doing lately, I said: ‘Gee, I have two kids. I’m usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.