Lisa Kudrow Quotes
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I have no affectation when I speak
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I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
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You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
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Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.
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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.
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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.
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I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.
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At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.
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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.
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights
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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.
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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
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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
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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
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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.
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This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
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This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.
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Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
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We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.
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Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
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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.
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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
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Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
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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.
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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.
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
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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.
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I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
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One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me
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One thing I really want to explore is writing.
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