Jennifer Coolidge

“I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't y...”

“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...”

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

“When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.”

“I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a p...”

“Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is al...”

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

“A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.”

“Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I shoul...”

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

“There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. Th...”

“I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes...”

“I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out that show business isn't the end-all. I thought I'd never be tired of Hollyw...”

“I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's...”

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

“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 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...”

“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 love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.”