Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She gained worldwide recognition for her ten-season run as Phoebe Buffay on the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth30 July 1963
CityEncino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
stupid mad dumb
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
dumb intelligence easier
Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
emotional dumb perception
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.
I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
becoming dignity expected lose program watching
Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
love survive
And then, if you survive that, they love you again,
begin damaged flawed interested likable meet minute people understand
Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.
tricky
It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.
privacy
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
tv-shows marketing important
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.
party apologizing committed
You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
funny dog men
Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
couple character personality
To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.
mother silly kids
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.