Lisa Kudrow quotes Her role as Phoebe on NBC's Friends (1994-2004) Born: 07/30/1963 Country: usa

• Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity. (Lisa Kudrow) [think/love/think/celebrity]
• I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way. (Lisa Kudrow) [actors/actors/perception]
• I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving. (Lisa Kudrow) [mistake/start/mistake]
• In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it. (Lisa Kudrow)
• Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that. (Lisa Kudrow) [eyes/think]
• An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. (Lisa Kudrow)
• Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy. (Lisa Kudrow)
• Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I have no affectation when I speak. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that. (Lisa Kudrow)
• My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person. (Lisa Kudrow)
• I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving (Lisa Kudrow)
• On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom. (Lisa Kudrow)
• One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me. (Lisa Kudrow)
• Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out. (Lisa Kudrow)
• Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with. (Lisa Kudrow)
• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. (Lisa Kudrow)
• We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture. (Lisa Kudrow)
• You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy. (Lisa Kudrow)

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