Quotes

• “(on meeting David Arquette)”I heard he was a really sweet guy, but a little troublemaker. For some reason when I saw him–and I’m never like this–I was kind of cocky and I said something like, “I knowho you are.” I don’t know why, but I wantedto have some kind of banter with him. I was really taken by him. He’s a very original person. Then I got to know him and foundthat he’s probably the sweetest person in the whole world. He has the best heart. And any troublemaking part of his personalityis just out of fun and because he’s kooky.”

• “on her appearance in the Bruce Springsteen video): I don’t like my hair that short. It didn’t work for me I looked like a little boy and I danced like a jock. “

• “If I get a facial, the paparazzi are there. If I go to my office, they’re there. We were followed all the way to Disneyland by five paparazzi cars for my daughter’s birthday.”

• “I have issues with getting older, sure. There are huge changes in my body and my face, and I obsess over them.I just try not to have too many mirrors around.”

• (after giving birth to her daughter Coco) “I haven’t been able to spend as much time with friends,because I like to be with my daughter, and they get annoyed at first, but then they actually see her, and they’re like, “Oh, okay.”"

• “Friends changed my life in so many ways. It gave me opportunity. It gave me freedom. It gave me a family ofclose friends with whom I’ve grown up. It taught me about comedy. It taught me about relationships. It taught me about everything.”

• “If you wear lipstick and pluck your eyebrows, you could wear nothing else.”

• “People who read a magazine can look at the picture and go, ‘She looks great for over 40!’ But guess what?That’s not what I look like. Lighting is everything. When you’re in your car and you look in the mirror and the sun’s beaming in, you’re like, ‘Wow, times are getting tough.”

• “Courteney Cox: (on her marriage) I’m shocked by people getting divorced all the time; that’s why I choose to work on it.Therapy helps us. It’s so easy to grow apart. Marriage takes work. I suppose you can work it out by talking to each other -I’d just prefer to have a referee. It reminds us why we’re together”

• “I don’t have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you’re really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point?”

• “I don’t think I’m too thin at all. I understand when people say, ‘Well your face gets gaunt,’ but to get your bottom half to be the right size,your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.”

• “I’m a Gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.”

• “I think I look very healthy. You’ve already seen what I’ve eaten, so I couldn’t be anorexic, and I wouldn’t throw up if you paid me $1,000, soI’m not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.”

• “A lot of my humor does come from anger. It’s like, you’re not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.”

• “I only have to do three things to look halfway decent, curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.”

• “If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I’m going to be. I don’t have an eating disorder.”

• “When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I’d heard that the firstyear of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.”

• “I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps,but I wouldn’t want to do that.”

• “Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I’ve got to get me one of those little accessories.”

• “I’m a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.”

• “I like to walk into a house and go, ‘Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.’”

• “I’m not going to deny it. I’m a neat person, there’s no question. But I don’t become obsessed with it.”

• “I don’t want to feel I’m responsible for anorexia across the country.”

• “It’s really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think,”

• “I know her backwards and forwards. I loved Monica, but you still get tired of it.”

• “I like TV,”

• “We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don’t hold it in for one second. From the first day we met,Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships,”

• “Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you`re in.”

• “I wasn`t going to go far. I`m only 5` 5″ and I don`t have that look.” (on her early modeling days) 

• “I get so bored! I had a treadmill… I gave it to my mom. I had a stairmaster… gone. I had a recumbent bike…I dont know where that is. So I hate exercise except for Pilates.”

• “I like keeping Gale bitchy. She has a reputation to live up to. She may have changed her hair but not much else.” [About her character Gale Weathers in the Scream (1996/I) series.]

• “Before he moved in, David would say `How are we ever going to meld together, because our tastes are so different?Maybe it`s because we`re truly in love that we can.” [On husband David Arquette.]

• “It`s so much fun for us. I have a new love for the show since I`ve gotten into this relationship. Honestly,I was a little bored the first four years. I had some fun things to do and some good relationships,but Monica was developing and I felt like there was a lot of straight man stuff. Now we have something really fun to play- two really neurotic people trying to have a relationship. They`re both afraid to commit, to get married, or take these steps.I have a really good time playing with him [Matthew Perry]. It`s kind of like our relationship in real life – except we don`t kiss.”[About playing Monica and Chandler on "Friends" (1994).]

• “I have to be physically attracted to someone. But I can`t just be with someone just because it`s great sex. Because orgasms don`t last long enough