Leslie Mann Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Leslie Mann:
I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Megan Fox is so funny.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'm pretty much game for anything.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Child actors don't have great track records.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Auditioning is so nerve-racking.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Perfect people are the scariest people to me.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I've always surrounded myself with funny people.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.'
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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?
~Leslie Mann
Link:
I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
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.
~Leslie Mann
Link:
Share:
Permalink:
Browse: