Jennifer Coolidge

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

— Jennifer Coolidge

When you leave L.A. and go to another city, guys are normal again. They like girls their own age.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I don't think my career would be as good if I were a serious actress. Comedy is less age-conscious.

— Jennifer Coolidge

When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I…

— Jennifer Coolidge

If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought,…

— Jennifer Coolidge

The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I feel that when you want to seduce a man, you really need your legs. Since all my outfits were long dresses,…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out…

— Jennifer Coolidge

Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get…

— Jennifer Coolidge

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's…

— Jennifer Coolidge

When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot…

— Jennifer Coolidge

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are…

— Jennifer Coolidge

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this,…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv…

— Jennifer Coolidge

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel.…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out…

— Jennifer Coolidge

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes…

— Jennifer Coolidge

Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated…

— Jennifer Coolidge

'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!

— Jennifer Coolidge

The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you're showing up for a backyard…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'

— Jennifer Coolidge

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails. I get a…

— Jennifer Coolidge

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon.…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

— Jennifer Coolidge

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women…

— Jennifer Coolidge