Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

I just wanted to change my life. I wanted to change everything. The first team that called me was Toronto FC. It was a quick choice.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

I never thought I'd end up coaching. It wasn't the plan.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not