A biography for Jennifer Coolidgehasn’t been written yet.
“I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.”
“The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.”
“I have been able to sniff out a phony.”
“There are some people who make you feel less lonely.”
“You get the older version of women that you've played before.”
“I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.”
“There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.”
“I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.”
“It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.”
“I don't actually go on the Internet that much.”
“The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.”
“I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.”
“When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.”
“Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.”
“A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.”
“I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.”
“The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.”
“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 barbecue.”
“I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.”
“When you leave L.A. and go to another city, guys are normal again. They like girls their own age.”