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Courteney Cox is an American actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends.

Actress | American

Born: 1964-06-15 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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.

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age

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

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age

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.

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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.'

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dad

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.

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dad

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

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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.

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

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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.

Courteney Cox

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

Courteney Cox

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.'

Courteney Cox

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.

Courteney Cox

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.

Courteney Cox

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Courteney Cox

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

Courteney Cox

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.

Courteney Cox

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

Courteney Cox

It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.

Courteney Cox

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.

Courteney Cox
mom

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.

Courteney Cox

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.

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