Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Jennifer Coolidge - Page 2

I think I'm comedy-attractive, but it's never gonna be me and Charlize Theron up there.

It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

Younger guy are attracted to a strong quality.

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

I don't think my career would be as good if I were a serious actress. Comedy is less age-conscious.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'

It seems almost impossible to me that the whole world doesn't know CPR.

When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.

The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.

Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.

With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.

I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.

Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He thought I was this actress living in New Orleans and it was my first job.

I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'

I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.

If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates women.

I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.

I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

I'm not a prude.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.

Sexual awareness is part of growing up. When you're growing up, you can't get away from sex.

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored of the architecture there. It began there. I travel a lot or my work, so now, wherever I go, I wasn't to find the most beautiful church, the most beautiful museums. Anything ancient.

We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.

I feel that when you want to seduce a man, you really need your legs. Since all my outfits were long dresses, I have to say that I really didn't feel sexy at all.

I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark - like someone involved in the drug world or some other criminal venture. Maybe someone who's delusional or not all there or just not well. I really hope I can do that one day.