Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
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I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.
