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.

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.

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.

The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?