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'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.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.