Lisa Kudrow Quotes - Page 2

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

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

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

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 have no affectation when I speak

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

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.

From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.