June Diane Raphael Quotes

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But I am a fan of his. I really am.

I'm afraid of death, obviously.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That's my story. There's a lot to talk about, for sure.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately.

[I think] everybody should see a dermatologist.

My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.

If someone tells me, "I just wash my face with soap," we have that discussion. And a lot of men, too. Thank god Paul Scheer knows to moisturize.

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.

That's the only thing I feel like, "No, no, no, no - I know the way. I know the way. I know where you are and you need to come with me, and we need to take care of our skin."

I'm like, "You could not wake up in the sixes? Does it really gotta be in the fives?" Because the 5 really feels like nighttime. I don't like the day starting at 5.

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister].

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

For me, I was the most vulnerable and needed the most in my postpartum experience and got the least. It was just kind of a drop-off. That would be my focus - on the woman, afterwards.

I do a lot of coaching with my friends on how to get out of relationships with their agents, boyfriends, contractors, whatever, because that's easy for me.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

I really do. I don't see it as a kind of elite experience - it's our biggest organ. We need to see a dermatologist and have them really look at our skin and figure out what's going on.