Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
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All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.
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It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.
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I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.
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I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.
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Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
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I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'
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With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.
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I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.
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As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.
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I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.
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When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.
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I think I'm comedy-attractive, but it's never gonna be me and Charlize Theron up there.
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The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you're showing up for a backyard barbecue.
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I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.
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When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.
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When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.
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I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.
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I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.
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A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.
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It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.
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I'm kind of harsher than most people.
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I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.
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If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.
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Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.