This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

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.

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.

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.

Believe it and you can be it!

Do not allow the adversaries to hinder you from fulfilling what God has planned for you

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.