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.
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
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.
This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
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.
You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
One thing I really want to explore is writing.
I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
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.
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.
In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.
You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.
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.
I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.
I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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
