I’m the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.

If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.