Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I'm very candid.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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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 had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
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One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community.
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Younger guy are attracted to a strong quality.