Quotes from Jennifer Coolidge

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

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 Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there's some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

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

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

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.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

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 don't actually go on the Internet that much.

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. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.

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 all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones.

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'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.

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 phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

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.

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

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