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Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

I wasn’t very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, ‘Why don’t you do the comedy thing.’ That’s how it all worked out.

– Jennifer Coolidge

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

– Jennifer Coolidge

Usually, when you’re an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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.

– Jennifer Coolidge

When you’re an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can’t fake you or hire another actor to play you.

– Jennifer Coolidge

When it’s going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it’s not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

– Jennifer Coolidge

Younger guy are attracted to a strong quality.

– Jennifer Coolidge

I always date younger men. For some reason that’s just the way it’s gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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

– Jennifer Coolidge

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.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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

– Jennifer Coolidge

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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

– Jennifer Coolidge

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It’s someone who’s trying to do a good painting, but it’s terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn’t know how to paint it.

– Jennifer Coolidge

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

– Jennifer Coolidge

The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you’re showing up for a backyard barbecue.

– Jennifer Coolidge

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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.

– Jennifer Coolidge

I hate Spanx.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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

– Jennifer Coolidge

I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.

– Jennifer Coolidge

Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.

– Jennifer Coolidge

As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler’s mom.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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.

– Jennifer Coolidge

When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.

– Jennifer Coolidge

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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

– Jennifer Coolidge

Unless you write your own movies… you can’t really say what you want to say.

– Jennifer Coolidge

Dating is… weird.

– Jennifer Coolidge

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