Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by Leslie Mann

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

I never felt comfortable leaving my kids until they were older. When they were babies, I remember thinking that I could never go on a Jerry Bruckheimer set and feel comfortable.

I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.

I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my voice, so it's kind of nice that now I'm making a lot of money with it.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Megan Fox is so funny.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'

Child actors don't have great track records.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else's house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

Written by a woman automatically is better.

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

When I was in acting class, we did a lot of really serious scenes, and we didn't do comedic scenes. I felt like doing those scenes, it didn't come out of my mouth the right way. I don't know if it's because my voice is different, or what it is about me, but it just seemed a little off.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.