Quotes from Leslie Mann

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

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

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

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

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

Child actors don't have great track records.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

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.

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

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

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.

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.