Courteney Cox quotes:

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.

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 have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.'

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

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

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

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 not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo

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.

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

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.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

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

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

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.

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.

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

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

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

I hate shopping.

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.

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

I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.

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'm not great at small talk.

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.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think life is really good.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

You never have to guess where you stand with me.

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

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

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.

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.

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

I don't like to go out in general.

It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.'

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

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

I'm not a housewife in any way.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

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

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

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

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.

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

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.

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

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

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 like TV. It all depends what it is.

I'm not fake in any way.

I want to change a lot.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

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'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

It seems like everything is so polarized. You get the caricatures of people, the caricatures of their beliefs. "I hate this kind of person" or "I love this kind of person." But actually, there's a lot of great things about them. There are things to like. There's possibility of change.

I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.

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 love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.