Holland: I don't think I was born to be a mother. During those years when my body would have wanted [babies], my mind wasn't listening. My creativity was so starved.
Holland: (thanking David E. Kelly when winning the Emmy) For giving me a chariot to ride up here on: A woman who puts a flag on the moon for women over 40. Who can think, who can work, who are successes, who can cook, and who can COOK!"
Holland: Don't know what made me want to be an actress. When I was in school, about 12, I did my first play. I was Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream in an outdoor theater, and it was a very dream-like experience. I just thought well, I'll just keep doing this. And, I never looked back!
Holland: It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do it.
Holland: (about her character in "The L Word," after reading the script) I thought the character was just delicious.
Holland: I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
Holland: I’ve often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
Holland's nephew is filmmaker Brad Anderson. She also appeared in his movies Next Stop Wonderland and Happy Accidents.
Holland has won Emmy Award (1999) as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in The Practice and has been nominated as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in The Lot and as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Two and a Half Men.
Holland loves France and has even taken French language lessons.
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