Lisa Kudrow Quotes


"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Conservative, Pretty)

"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
(Related: Mistake, End, World)

"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
(Related: Fun, 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
(Related: People, Network)

"One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: 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
(Related: Funny, Thought)

"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
(Related: Baby, Eyes)

"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
(Related: Dignity, Now)

"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
(Related: Culture, Now, Reality, Right, Woman)

"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
(Related: Family, Funny, People, Trying)

"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
(Related: Sex, Feelings, Thoughts, Being, Rights)

"Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Comedy, Dumb, Hair)

"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
(Related: Life, Marketing, Privacy, Worth)

"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Television)

"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
(Related: Action, Actor, Right)

"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
(Related: Mother, Acting, Body, Effort, Kids, Silly, Want)

"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
(Related: People, Drama, Fun, Reality)

"I have no affectation when I speak."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Affectation)

"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
(Related: Business, Actor, Career, Identity)

"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
(Related: Man, Respect, Thinking, Woman)

"I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: People, Being, Fun)

"I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Dumb)

"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
(Related: Man, Reinventing, Right)