I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd. Lisa Kudrow More Quotes by Lisa Kudrow More Quotes From Lisa Kudrow 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 light would-be people This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen. Lisa Kudrow good-things unhappy sometimes An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. Lisa Kudrow actresses television thinking 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 married matter men I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair. Lisa Kudrow accepting fun people 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 eye baby thinking One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me Lisa Kudrow fantasy ifs years 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 actors careers identity I have no affectation when I speak Lisa Kudrow speak 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 shows culture reality At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done. Lisa Kudrow falcon aging done 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 stupid mother silly Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear? Lisa Kudrow dog men funny 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 fun drama reality From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome. Lisa Kudrow college trying school To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones. Lisa Kudrow couple personality character Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish. Lisa Kudrow vulnerable girl moments You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime. Lisa Kudrow dimes feelings people I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other. Lisa Kudrow true-life self thinking [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments. Lisa Kudrow okay moments doubt
