Quotes from Courteney Cox

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.

Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.'

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.