Lisa Kudrow Quotes (31 Quotes)


    I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

    My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

    I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

    I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

    In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.


    Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

    I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

    I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

    The tragedy, ... is that this woman needs something, and has expectations, that cannot be fully realized. And to keep herself in such an unforgiving environment, she goes back and forth between being really strong, and stupid about what her priorities are.

    Phoebe I may play the fool at times but I'm a little more than just a pretty blonde girl with an ass that won't quit.

    You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

    I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

    Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

    I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

    Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

    Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.

    And then, if you survive that, they love you again,

    An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

    One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

    Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

    We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

    I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

    On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

    I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

    We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

    I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

    I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.


    I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

    Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.

    Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.


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