Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

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Jennifer Coolidge

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 28, 1961

Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.

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When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

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I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

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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.

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I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

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I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

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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 should change that and maybe write my own thing.

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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.

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With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.

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I'm not a prude.

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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.

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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.

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I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

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You get the older version of women that you've played before.

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

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

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Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

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If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

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

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I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.

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