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
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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.
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The tragedy, ... is that this woman needs something, and has expectations, that cannot be fully realized. And to keep herself in such an unforgiving environment, she goes back and forth between being really strong, and stupid about what her priorities are.
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It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.
I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
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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,
people sure
Some people aren't sure what to make of it,
achieve became love trying
Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
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.
privacy
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
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From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.
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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.