'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!
— Jennifer Coolidge
I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.
I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.
Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.
You get the older version of women that you've played before.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
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.'
I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.
There are some people who make you feel less lonely.
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.
Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates women.
I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.
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 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.'
I'm not a prude.
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 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.
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.
I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.
I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'
I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.
It seems almost impossible to me that the whole world doesn't know CPR.
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.
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.
The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.
I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.
I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails. I get a rash up my arm and face.
I don't think my career would be as good if I were a serious actress. Comedy is less age-conscious.
If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.
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 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.
With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.
Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He thought I was this actress living in New Orleans and it was my first job.
I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.
There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.
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.
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.
It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.
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.
Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
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.
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.
