Quotes

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed." "It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying." On her marriage to Brad Pitt, after 2 years: "Everybody always asks if we're happy. Give me a break. We're married two years. In Hollywood years, that's forever." On the constant rumors surrounding her recent split from Brad Pitt: "There is always going to be the tough and the nasty. You just tune out to that." On the irony of the title of her upcoming movie, The Break-Up (2006): "Well, you know. I figured just seize the moment." "I always say, 'Don't make plans, make options." "If we can say, 'I loved, and I received a lot of love,' then great. That's enough." "We live in such a fast-paced world, always going, going going. Just making a devotion to yourself and committing to exercise is such an act of self-love". "I was around 13 (revealing how she pierced her own ears). There was a string involved… you take a needle and thread, and then you hit it with the potato. Somehow it worked". "It's a good-bye kiss (on her lesbian kiss with Courteney Cox on “Dirt“). I don't honestly think people want to see Rachel and Monica at it. I think I won a bet. I said to Courteney, 'How many days will it take to come out? 'Lesbian kiss! Lip-lock!' It was a record, about a week. "I had a deviated septum fixed (on her nose job in 2007) - best thing I ever did. I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other rumours, as boring as it sounds, (my breasts) they're still mine. Short of letting everybody have a feel, I don't know what else to do. I really am pretty happy with what God gave me". "I would love to get involved in Dirt--if I was invited. Just to be able to work with my girl again! We have talked about it, we've danced around it". "I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well". "I don't have any commitment issues in relationships, obviously!" "I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy". "Friends is so successful that, if you make a movie and it's not as big as Friends, then you get people telling you, 'How dare you make a movie? Keep your day job, dammit!'" "As an actor, you have to be up in the morning, so you make your dinner and go to bed". "It's so wonderful (on reconciling with her mother)... it's like we get to introduce ourselves to each other again". "I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God. never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass". "You're damned if you're too thin, and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. It's imposible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we all stop trying". "True love brings up everything; you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily". "When I found out they were honoring me with [the Female Star of the Year] award, I was like... Are you sure you didn't go down one name too far on the call sheet or something?" "I will not let myself down like that -- I also know what feels good and it doesn't feel good to harbor anger and resentment ... We do have tools to work through stuff. Everybody does. (on seeing pictures of Angelina Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt together)" "I have a great family and great friends who give me lots of love and support". "I wouldn't change my childhood, I wouldn't change my heartaches, I wouldn't change my successes... I really love who I am". "I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all". "At first I was really nervous about it (on her character in Derailed), thinking, I can't do this. I was starting to buy into my own stereotype in a way". "Sometimes I get this feeling I'm being followed (on her three most recent films). Not in the usual sense. But just look at the titles of my movies: Derailed, The Break Up, Rumor Has It, come on, is that weird?" "(on cheating) It's men who usually do the cheating -- that's a very general statement, but I'm sure if we did a poll it would turn out it was more men than women". "When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed". "I always say, 'Don't make plans, make options'". "If we can say, 'I loved, and I received a lot of love,' then great. That's enough". "It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying". "I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies". "There are no regrets in life, just lessons". "Don't rely on men but don't shun them either". "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain". "The best smell in the world is the man that you love". "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain". "Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do." "Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today'. But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy." "There are no regrets in life, Just lessons". "I know there's a whole theory behind it and aerodynamics - still, it's a big, heavy plane". "What's real and what's fantasy? And what's the priority here? For 10 years I haven't had time to deal with that". "Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kida falls into place". "It just feels like it's done and played itself beautifully till the end. It's better to go out with people still loving us. But leaving is going to tear me apart. Rachel's been a part of me for so long. I'm a weeper, so there'll be lots of tears when it's over". "If you never take a risk, you actually risk loosing out in every department of life". "Try to follow what it is that you want to do and do what your heart's telling you to do. It's an every day battle". "Isn't it funny? Your image of yourself is so different than other peoples'. I'm not good at hearing positive things - I can accept criticism better. I'm very critical of myself - which gives me something to work on. I want to evolve". "I was a goofball, I'm a goofball, a wacko freak". "Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or...I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know". "True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily". "I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special". "I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up...and forgive". "I look at life like rock climbing. You get through the first tier, you rest for a minute, you look back, and see how far you've come. Then you look up and you've got another tier to climb". "The best smell in the world is that man you love". "Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos-they're rebellious". "At the end of the day when you go up to the big guy, he aint gonna care if you were famous loaded, any of that. So it comes down to love. Have you loved? Have you loved and received love?" "Sometimes Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and myself compare the cellulite on our thighs and butt. We're not that different from other girls. Women are obsessed about their hips; mine are really wide, as if they were made for having children. The day I become pregnant the baby will have all the room it wants inside of me". "I think growing old should be done gracefully, though. There are some woman who shall remain nameless who have gone way too far. Some of them look like the Grinch. They look like they're snorkeling with the snorkels still stuck in their mouths. I haven't done the Botox thing...yet. Something frightens me about injecting botulism into my brain cavity. I love the expression showing in my face. But God knows I could use it. see, right here (points)". "I learned a lot about human relations and emotions at a young age, dealing with adults who were all of a sudden children. It's definitely hard. You deal with them fighting through you. That's a drag". "I would love to sit down with all the people who are doing wrong in the world and go: Hey, what's up with you? What is your f*cked up problem? Go smell the roses for crying out loud". "The first time my husband kissed me i stopped breathing. He literatley took my breath away". "It's a wonderful thing to have somebody I love so much. Who loves me and accepts me with all my insecurities and struggles". "It's a real gift to find someone to share your life with and it turns out right". "I'm very old fashioned when it comes to love. I like men who act like gentlemen. The first time a boyfriend brought me breakfast in bed, I nearly cried". "Most of our friends have kids and they seem to have a lot of fun. Of course, there is a lot of work and responsibility, too. I am under no illusion, but I still feel that babies are so magical that I want at least one of my own. Brad feels the same way. We hope it is 'when' rather than 'if' and I don't think of just having one". "You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both". "Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying". "It's those moments when I'm being most truthful, being the highest form of myself and, you know, a nice pair of Jimmy Choo stiletto come-do-me pumps don't hurt". "I'd love for you to put on a dress and shoes and have a hundred people scream at you and then walk down a carpet. There are dresses that are exquisite, but you have to hold your breath to sit down or walk up stairs. I'm more comfortable in a simple dress I can just wear and kick off my shoes and sit cross-legged on the couch". Jen on Friends: "I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act". "I remember dreaming about it, about being on TV. I remember seeing Children of a Lesser God on Broadway. I was sitting in the second or third row, and I was just so blown away, and I walked out saying, 'That’s what I want to do'". "We’re all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn’t leave. It wouldn’t be the show it is without each of us". "When you watch the show in reruns... it’s so funny to be flipping channels and see an old episode and think, ‘God we were awful. Such babies'". "Inner Strength.. I love it!" "You can't ask: 'Why is this happening to me?' It's happening to you! Life's tough. Get a helmet". "Past: done. Present: now. Future: none of our business".

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