Leslie Mann Quotes

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved to not being able to think about myself at all. At the end of the day, I think that's the best thing that someone can go through. I think it makes you a better person. It doesn't mean that people who don't go through that aren't good people. For me, it was a good thing.

We discovered that we have a fun chemistry physically. Cameron [Diaz] has really long legs and a short torso, and I have a really long torso and shorter legs.

Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

When I was in acting class, we did a lot of really serious scenes, and we didn't do comedic scenes. I felt like doing those scenes, it didn't come out of my mouth the right way. I don't know if it's because my voice is different, or what it is about me, but it just seemed a little off.

Written by a woman automatically is better.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

I'm pretty much game for anything.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.