Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

Jennifer Coolidge

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• I'm not a leading man.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Leading Man

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Culture
  • Like

• As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Fans
  • Saying

• A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Live
  • Leader

• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Father
  • Man
  • Shadow

• I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Song
  • Me
  • Romantic

• Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Faith
  • Dreams

• What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Successful
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Myself
  • Never
  • News

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Unhappy

• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Men
  • Done
  • Help

• Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Truth

• Yo soy muy natural, muy sencilla muy honesta y pues siempre voy a ser. (Spanish for, I'm very real, very sincere, and honest, and that's how I'll always be.)

  

  Selena
  • Real
  • Spanish

• The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Forever

• I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Children
  • Home

• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Script

• I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Time
  • Together
  • Past

• Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Left

• I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

  

  Jennifer Coolidge