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

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.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.