Busy Philipps
Busy Philipps
Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps is an American actress, known for her supporting roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek. She has also performed significant roles in films like The Smokers, as Karen Carter, the drama film Home Roomas Alicia Browning, she appeared in White Chicks, played a supporting role in Made of Honorand appeared in He's Just Not That Into You. She played Laurie Keller in the TV series Cougar Town for which she won the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 June 1979
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.
I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.
Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.
Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
It gets super dark. I did a bunch of intense indie movies when I was starting out in my career and I was always in a bad mood because, when you're dealing with the subject matter of losing your baby, getting raped and all that stuff, it's not fun to go through. You really have to go there.
The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!
We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.
From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.
I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.
Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.
It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.