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. June Diane Raphael More Quotes by June Diane Raphael More Quotes From June Diane Raphael 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. June Diane Raphael writing trying fall It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way that you're being seen, which is of course completely antithetical to the work you want to do, which is completely free and bold and truthful and honest and brave. June Diane Raphael brave want thinking Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. 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June Diane Raphael office new-york thinking It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always. June Diane Raphael focus brave worry I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good. June Diane Raphael feels I think I know who my audience is. It's pretty satisfying, and I think we all need to take care of ourselves and laugh as well as do everything we can to fight back right now while being mindful of laughing and enjoying ourselves where and when we can. June Diane Raphael fighting laughing thinking [I think] everybody should see a dermatologist. June Diane Raphael should thinking I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. 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I'm like, "This doesn't feel right - moving on." I don't really suffer fools, which makes it easier for me. June Diane Raphael suffering gone moving I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom and read it again and truly understand on a different level what one of the main characters goes through as a mother. June Diane Raphael mom mother character 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. June Diane Raphael wake-up like-you doe 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. June Diane Raphael wine skins people That's the only thing I feel like, "No, no, no, no - I know the way. I know the way. 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