Lisa Kudrow famous quotes

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Sexy #Smart #Hair

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

#People #Laughing #Trying

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 #Becoming #World

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

#Mother #Silly #Kids

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

#Sex #Rights #Feelings

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Years #Fantasy

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

#White #Hug #Said

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Communication #Who I Am #Nonviolent Communication

[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Doubt #Moments #Okay

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

#Careers #Identity #Actors

I have no affectation when I speak
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Speak

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

#Reality #Culture #Shows

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Dumb #Intelligence #Easier

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

#Fun #Dark #Hair

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

#Light #People #Would Be

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Thinking #Television #Actresses

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

#Thinking #Actors #Action

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

#Men #Matter #Married

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Work #Fields #Facts

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Privacy

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Fun #People #Accepting

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

#Couple #Thinking #Men

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Done #Aging #Stills

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Graduation #Moving #Voice

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

#Fun #Drama #Reality

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

#Tv Shows #Marketing #Important

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Funny #Dog #Men

You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Party #Apologizing #Committed

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
-- Lisa Kudrow

#Stupid #Mad #Dumb

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

#Baby #Eye #Thinking