Lisa Kudrow Quotes
I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
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It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.
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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
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It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
