Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.