Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
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The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.
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When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.
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I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.
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When you leave L.A. and go to another city, guys are normal again. They like girls their own age.
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I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
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I wasn't funny. My brother was the funny one in the family.
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Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.
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Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones.
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Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.
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I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.
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I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.
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Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that.
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I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out that show business isn't the end-all. I thought I'd never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there's some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.
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There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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I get the gold-digger part six times weekly. I can play those women into the ground, but I don't want someone telling me that's all I can do.
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'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!
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I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.
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I don't think my career would be as good if I were a serious actress. Comedy is less age-conscious.
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The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.
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If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!
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I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.