| COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE |
| "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." "If there's a hair on my food, I'm one of those people who will eat the food anyway." "I like keeping Gale bitchy. She has a reputation to live up to. She may have changed her hair but not much else." about her character Gale Weathers in the Scream series "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." "I get so bored! I had a treadmill, I gave it to my mom. I had a stairmaster, gone. I had a recumbent bike, I dont know where that is. So I hate exercise except for Pilates." "I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years." "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." "I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'" "I only have to do three things to look halfway decent, curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on." "I was advised not to do Scream because no one likes horror movies. Then I heard, 'Don't audition because you can't do this bitchy role,' and 'You're way too friendly, no pun intended.' I was also told, 'Play the girlfriend or the doctor or the lawyer - the nice ones.' Now I'm getting scripts where I'm asked to play characters that are tough as nails, and I love it." "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 a quirky person, although I�d like to be. I think it looks fun to be quirky, but I just don�t have it in me. I�m working towards being a kook.� "I know this character isn't young, but I'd love to play Margo Channing, Bette Davis's role in 'All About Eve.' What a delicious part," says Courteney Cox when asked which young character she would want to play. "I love flowers, so I always have fresh-cut ones throughout the whole house. I love arranging them; that's a southern thing. " "Actually I've had some of my best work shown on 'Hard Copy.� "Thank God I started acting, because I'd never have made it as a model. I was short, had baby fat, and didn't have the attitude. Acting is like getting high for me. And when it's over, I want to eat a million candy bars." "I have to be 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've got some great guys 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." About the audition for Bruce Springsteen�s videoclip, Dancing in the Dark --- �There were lots of dancers there ... these great long-legged women, and I�m wearing jeans and sneakers, and I went: ' Whoa, I�m in the wrong place!!'.� "I got my first job at 13. I'd call people out of the phone book and try to make them give donations to the foundation for the mentally retarded." "The job I liked best, though, was modeling in New York for young adult book covers. You didn�t have to be the prettiest or the thinnest or the tallest. If the book was called What�s under the stairs?, I'd hold a flashlight and look scared. It was the only kind of modeling i felt comfortable doing." "I was ten and my parents were getting divorced, I went by myself to see The Way We Were. I was crying so hard, the usher had to take me out of the theater." "Later I went to see The Exorcist with a friend. She left as soon as Linda Blair started flopping around. But I stayed. There was something about being scared that I loved." "There's nothing like reading a book with the writings of smart, funny women. It makes you laugh. It makes you think. I just wanted to be friends with all of them." About David (Arquette): "Our wedding day was the happiest day of my life. We were surrounded by the people we love and had the best party afterward. I wanted it to be storybook perfect for us, and it was." The fact that you can be married to somebody, but you kiss someone else maybe a few times a year, or with Chandler, we kiss a few times a week. So, it's a weird thing but David handles that really well. I think my thing is that I told him, if you ever do a movie that's really about romance or sex, I'm just probably not going to go. " "I am older, but you could only call me a Mom to David insofar as I listen to him. He takes care of me. He provides my stability. As crazy or goofy as people think David is, he's the one who likes to know that things are going to stay the same. I'm much more impulsive; I'm the one who gets bored. That's why I'm always redecorating - I need change." "We're emotionally very similar. We're both the youngest in our families. We laugh at the same things. Yes, he has more color in his closet than I do in the whole house - he has everything from chicken outfits to beautiful suits. But clothes just happen not to be my priority. Wearing clothes for him is like decorating houses for me." "It was a total surprise when David asked to marry me. We'd gone down to Florida for the opening of my brother's patio-furniture store. Afterward, David was very clingy. I'm surprised I didn�t say, 'You've got to leave me alone!' Someone suggested, 'Lets go walk on the beach.' And I went, 'This is odd. My family doesn�t go walking on the beach as a unit.' There were all these fireworks going off on a barge-and I still didn�t get it. I thought, 'Wow, my brother really went all-out for his furniture store.' The next thing I knew, David said, 'This is all for you.' And he got down on one knee and proposed." "Before David, I'd only be attracted to older men. I think there was something about them seeming wiser than me. But I look up to David. In many ways, he's smarter than me. Sure, the age thing is scary. But David loves older women-always has. Obviously! Everyone knows who he's been out with." "When David 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." "We met at a party right before making Scream. There was this electricity between us, and I thought to myself, Wow! I found myself being really sarcastic, which is not all like me, at least with guys. Usually, I'm really shy, like if I'm watching a guy and he catches me, I pretend that I'm not looking. With David, though, I found myself being very Gale Weathers. I gave him attitude" "He's the calm one, but he's also so nutty, sooooo sexy, and different from any man I've met" "David probably wouldn't want me to tell you this, but we have these two shower heads and we get in there and we start making up songs and singing these duets. Sometimes the only thing that get us out of there is when the hot water runs out" About Friends: Back during the first season of Friends, Courteney Cox was asked why her character hadn�t got involved with either Joey or Chandler and she answered: �Monica is too smart to sleep with Joey, and Chandler doesn�t know how to have a relationship.� About Chandler & Monica --- �Monica is not only neurotic and nutty and whatever, but she�s also sexual and mature. So she can kind of teach Chandler the ropes as opposed to being the insecure female.� About Monica --- �If you actually lived with Monica, you�d have to kill her.� Defending Monica --- �Let�s face it, we�ve all got problems. We don�t choose the right people, we�ve all got hang-ups. It�s hard in life anyway to find the right person.� About Moinca --- "She's the most normal. She has her quirks - she's compulsive - but she's the voice of reason." About other people: About jennifer Aniston --- "I was so jealous when I went to her house once and she was actually watching the sunset. She has a beautiful rose garden, and she takes things in. I'm too busy puttering and moving around. She has an amazing love of life." Other people about Courteney: Martha Kauffman --- "Courteney is the cutist thing in the world. I just want to eat her up! I want her to come home with me and stay with me and be my best friend for the rest of my life!" David Arquette --- "I'm so honored to be her fiance'. I am so in love with her, and I don't want to hide it anymore!" Lisa Kudrow --- "I thought she'd be a little aloof and celebrity-ish, but she wasn't at all!" Jennifer Aniston --- "Courteney is the mother of the group, if you don't know what to do, she can tell you in three seconds." Jennifer Aniston --- "That Courteney has the best tool collection in town," Jennifer says. "She wired her own chandeliers, does her own plumbing, installed windows..." David Arquette, Courteney Cox's husband, was asked: What was your most romantic gift? He responded: "My girlfriend Courteney threw me a birthday party, with all my friends and family, and it was the best surprise ever." |