Courteney Cox quotes
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“I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.”
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“I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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“There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox: ‘Divorce is not an option’". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.mailonsunday.co.uk. December 23, 2008.
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“I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.”
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“When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.”
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“I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Life imitates art for Courtney Cox Arquette". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.
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“I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?”
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“I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.”
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“I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.”
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“I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.”
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“I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.”
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“You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.”
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“I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.”
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“I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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“What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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“Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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“Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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“I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.”
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“Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?”
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“I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.”
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“I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because ***** don't last long enough.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.”
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“I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!”
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“I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.”
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“Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].”
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“I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.”
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“I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.”
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“So many people have so much trouble having kids.”
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“You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”
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“The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'”
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“You never have to guess where you stand with me.”
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“When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.”
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“I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.”
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“One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.”
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“I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'”
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“What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.”
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“It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.”
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“It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.”
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“I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.”
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“I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "A revealing sit-down with Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 9, 2003.
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“Some people were offended by a show about cougars.”
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“I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox: The rise of the man-eating older woman". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.
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“I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.”
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“Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.
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“I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.”
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“Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible.”
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“At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'”
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“As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!”
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“A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'”
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“I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.”
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“Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.”
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“I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.”
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“Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.”
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“If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.”
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“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.”
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“I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.”
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“I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.”
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“Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.”
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“~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~”
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“Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.”
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“I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.”
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“Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.”
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“Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.”
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“It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.”
-- Courteney CoxSource : "A Revealing Sit-down With Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 09, 2003.
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“It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.'”
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“I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.”
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“I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.”
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“I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.”
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“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?”
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