Tea discussing David
About meeting at a party after being set up by their mutual agent: "I arrived just as he was
walking out the front door. He said, 'Tea' And I said, 'David, oh, wow.' I was flustered
and taken aback by how attractive he was."
Leoni Latches Onto The
Big Story --Newsday, May 1998
Q: What possession do you cherish most?
"David gave me a painting that he
commissioned a friend of mine to make. At the bottom is a quote from a poem David
wrote me. It hangs over our bed."
Q: What is the best gift you ever received?
"For my birthday David rented me a sound
studio with musicians and backup singers. I sang my heart out. If I were to reschedule my
life, I would be a country-and-western singer. David knew that so he made that dream
come true. I was so happy, I cried."
Tea Time --SELF, July 1998.
About their Tonight Show meeting: "Poor David. I think he was made ill by my
presence."
Then about meeting again through their manager: "Boy, do I wish we had a
better love story than that."
And about their telephone courtship: "Ooh, such a sexy
voice."
Her first-date jitters: "God, I thought, What happens if he's this wrong-pheromoned brute?
But the moment he got in the car, he smelled like home."
Hot Tea --Elle, May 1998
"I totally enjoy watching David. He's an actor you never see enough of. He's captivating.
He's the kind of actor I would not want to stand on stage with, because I think the
moment he left the stage, people would just be concerned with missing him. And I find
that, for me, that's true - yes, I'm his wife, but when he's not on screen, I miss him. At the
end of [The X-Files], I want to see him a little bit more. And I think that's a great accolade
for David's talents. And he's a wonderful human being."
Femme Fatales, 1998
On her and David's wedding:
"That was as close to being in a rock concert as I've ever come. We had a
beautiful ceremony. We had done what we could to keep it very private. It was my
mother and my father and my brother, his mother and his sister and his brother. And that's
it. That ceremony was blessed, it was one of the best moments of my life. And then it
began.
At the hotel, a crowd gathered. And gathered. And gathered.
"That was when I first got really scared. There were so many people, and I'm
not sure they were all there because they knew what they were there for. It's just a
mentality, like, What's everybody looking at?'"
She says media coverage is definitely on
the wane, and good riddance.
"I think people are getting more used to the idea of seeing David and me kicking around
town. I think a lot of the tabloid journalists have found out that we're not very
exciting as a couple. We don't dash about town in limousines. We don't attend wild
parties. There's not a chandelier in our house."
On differences between David and the FBI Agent he portrays: "I think that Mulder is certainly less awake than David. He's not as smart as David, either.
Close, but not. As far as being a good dresser, Mulder is good, sometimes better, I'll give
him that. Mulder is so unwilling to give a piece of himself to one person, and David is so
willing to give a piece of himself to one person."
The Bergen Record, May 1998
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