Top 40 Courteney Cox Quotes

I don’t think I’m too thin at all. I understand when people say, ‘Well your face gets gaunt,’ but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

I’d like to fly.

When I was a kid I didn’t feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldn’t say it, but, I didn’t think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn’t think anything was funny. I couldn’t laugh.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

It’s funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.

I’m not great at small talk.

I don’t want to feel I’m responsible for anorexia across the country.

I’d feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don’t.

I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I’d heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I think it’s hard, the fact that there’s a certain age that we can’t have kids anymore.

It’s not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I don’t use a lint brush or anything, and I don’t iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s… Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It’s horrible.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It’s like, you’re not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I’ve got to get me one of those little accessories.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.

What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, ‘This is what I need,’ and doesn’t feel bad about it.

I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

I don’t think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don’t like.

I love directing.

I don’t like to go out in general.

I’m not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it’s not like I’m one to say, ‘Hey, let’s hang out at your house tonight.’

I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.

I’m a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

I don’t like venison or sushi – I don’t want to eat what some people think are ‘luxurious’ foods.

I don’t find the whole ‘cougar’ word that offensive.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn’t want to do that.

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

Oh, I’m kooky.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

I really love houses.

I think life is really good.

At one point my dad called me and said, ‘You have always been a great salesman. I think it’s time you come home and sell swimming pools.’