Quotes from Lisa Kudrow

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

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.

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

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

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

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.

There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

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.

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