Courteney Cox Quotes

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.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

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

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

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

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.

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.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

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

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

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

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.

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

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

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.

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.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

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.'

Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible.

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

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

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

You never have to guess where you stand with me.

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

I don't find the whole cougar word that offensive.

I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from 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'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

I'm not a housewife in any way.

I'm not fake in any way.

I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.

Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

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 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.