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Lisa Kudrow Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 have no affectation when I speak.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.