Leslie Mann Quotes

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

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 was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my voice, so it's kind of nice that now I'm making a lot of money with it.

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business.

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.

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 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.

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 never felt comfortable leaving my kids until they were older. When they were babies, I remember thinking that I could never go on a Jerry Bruckheimer set and feel comfortable.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

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

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

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

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.

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.

Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else's house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.

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.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

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.

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

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

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.

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

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

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

Written by a woman automatically is better.