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Lisa Kudrow
American
Actress
About the author
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#Television
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#Work
#Celebrity
#Privacy
I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#World
#End
#Mistake
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,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#Thought
#Funny
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,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#Now
#Dignity
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,
American
Actress
#Right
#Now
#Culture
#Woman
#Reality
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,
American
Actress
#People
#Family
#Trying
#Funny
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,
American
Actress
#Being
#Rights
#Thoughts
#Feelings
#Sex
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#Dumb
#Comedy
#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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Worth
#Marketing
#Privacy
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,
American
Actress
#Action
#Right
#Actor
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,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Want
#Kids
#Mother
#Body
#Effort
#Silly
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,
American
Actress
#People
#Fun
#Reality
#Drama
I have no affectation when I speak.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#Career
#Business
#Actor
#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,
American
Actress
#Thinking
#Respect
#Man
#Woman
I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#People
#Fun
#Being
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
Lisa Kudrow,
American
Actress
#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,
American
Actress
#Right
#Man
#Reinventing