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'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.

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.