Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

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Jennifer Coolidge

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 28, 1961

A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.

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Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

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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.'

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If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.

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I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

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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.

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The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

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Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

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I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.

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I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.

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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.

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I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

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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 more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

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It seems almost impossible to me that the whole world doesn't know CPR.

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

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It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

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I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

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It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.

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I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.

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

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