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I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity otherwise, you're doomed

Lisa Kudrow

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Lisa Kudrow
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 30
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Lisa Valerie Kudrow
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This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.
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I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
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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.
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You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
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In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
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Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
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I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
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I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that
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This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
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We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.
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I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
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I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
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