Leslie Mann Quotes

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Leslie Mann

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 26, 1972

I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business.

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

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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.

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I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.

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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.

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I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Child actors don't have great track records.

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Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

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I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

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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.

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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.

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I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

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

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All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

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Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

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Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

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