Lisa Kudrow Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

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.

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'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 have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

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.

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.

This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

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 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 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

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.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

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.

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

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.

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

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

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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have no affectation when I speak

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

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.