Latest Angie Harmon Quotes from Interviews

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• People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen like that, in real life. And, we're always going to have crime, unfortunately. If we didn't, then I wouldn't have a new show.

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  Real, Moving, People

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart.

  Angie Harmon

  Father, Heart, Thinking

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• It's so important to be thankful and grateful for any and every opportunity that we have, especially in this business. I learned some wonderful things there. I learned that it doesn't matter how tired you are, you always hang up your wardrobe. That was a wonderful place for me. I would sit in my dressing room and stuff envelopes with my wedding invitations. That place has a real reverence for me.

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  Real, Grateful, Tired

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I understand some people may not have that kind of reverence for it, but I really thought that the revolving door of Law & Order would keep it going because you can just keep moving the people through.

  Angie Harmon

  Moving, Doors, Order

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I like the exercise of reading through a paragraph, and it's just torture. I try not to have my eyes dart to the right. That's the stuff that I love.

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  Book, Reading, Eye

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• We're all pretty proud of it, and we're also standing around, scratching our heads and going, "Wow, this is really good." With the caliber of actors that we have, you really can't got wrong. Not only is it fun, but it's good. It's been really, really great, in that aspect. I totally get what they're doing.

  Angie Harmon

  Fun, Actors, Proud

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• That being said, in my top five favorite movies, two of them are Alien and Aliens. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I love comedy, but I also love the darker things in life. I guess I'm an extremist. I'm an adrenaline junkie. Just cruising along at a normal capacity really doesn't do anything for me.

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  Things In Life, Two, People

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

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  Want, Information, Computer

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

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  Fun, Character, Play

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I totally understand the promotional aspect of our show and the business end of it. We're putting something out there that we're really proud of. It's not like we're saying, "Hey, come watch our show," because it sucks.

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  Watches, Hey, Proud

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I hadn't read any of the books before, but I have since we started. It's so funny because I'm reading a book of a person that I'm playing. Then, here's this person that she's in a relationship with and, what we're shooting now, we're not in a relationship. I'm getting a prequel and a history to these people in the book. It's very odd. It's very weird because it's like The Twilight Zone.

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  Book, Reading, Twilight

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• We have just had the most amazing time. Every now and then, we'll come across a review where the person didn't like it and we're like, "What? Really? How could you not like it?" All of us like it so much, and we have such a great time at work. We've just been really blessed, and we're all standing here going, "Wait a minute, how did this happen?" It's been awesome.

  Angie Harmon

  Blessed, Waiting, Most Amazing

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast in the more dramatic roles, so it's been a really, really fun time playing her humor and her attitude. She's a complete tomboy, so I did a really intense study on men and how they relate to each other, in the way they walk and hold themselves and position themselves in the hierarchy, just in something as simple as a conversation.

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  Fun, Attitude, Character

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• When we were trying to find the woman to play Maura Isles, it was a no-brainer when Sasha came in. We just knew it was her, and she did such a fantastic job. She got the job, right then and there, in the room, and it was great. We actually played a little joke on her. She's a great lady and we've had a really, really fantastic time.

  Angie Harmon

  Jobs, Play, Trying

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• You don't often get what you ask for, and I got exactly that. I got a show that was on cable, that I could shoot five months a year and go be mommy the rest of the time, and be with a cast and crew that I really, really love, adore and respect. I got all of that.

  Angie Harmon

  Years, Months, Crew

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.

  Angie Harmon

  Mom, Father, Twilight

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• Bruce McGill and Sasha Alexander are regulars on the show. That shows that it's not just a typical procedural show. We have these actors because they can come in and actually act, and show the different colors of actual people. No person is just one color. No person is just who they are at their job, 24/7. That was really what I was excited about.

  Angie Harmon

  Jobs, Color, People

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• I think the thing that made this stand out the most was just the fact that there's a lot more character to these characters. We see their back stories and we see their present situations, and that was a lot more interesting than just the regular procedural with four heads standing around a body, spelling it out for you. It's a lot more of a roller coaster ride.

  Angie Harmon

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• It's definitely got a lot more grit to it. And, we don't pretend to be the smartest people there. We're not like, "This is how we did it, and now we're just going to show you how we go catch them. The audience gets to figure it out with us.

  Angie Harmon

  People, Grit, Figures

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.