Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
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I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.
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I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.
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Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.
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Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.
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Stand-up is a weird animal. There are people who really want to know what you think about things, your opinion on life. But then there are people who think you're just that beautician in 'Legally Blonde,' who doesn't have opinions on anything. Or that I'm Stifler's mom and hot for it all the time.
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I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.
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I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.
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The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.
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To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.
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I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.
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I have been able to sniff out a phony.
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I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.
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There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.
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I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.
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You get the older version of women that you've played before.
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Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.
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I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.
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When I go on 'The View,' or any of those talk shows, you really don't get to say what you want to say.
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When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.
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I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
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It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.
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People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.
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It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.
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The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.