Lisa Kudrow
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"Lisa Valerie Kudrow" is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She gained worldwide recognition for her ten-season run as Phoebe Buffay on the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She went on to produce, write and star in the HBO series The Comeback (TV series)/The Comeback, which was revived nine years later and began airing in November 2014. She also is currently starring in Web Therapy (TV series)/Web Therapy which is in its fourth season on Showtime (TV network)/Showtime. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class – Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program for the show in 2012. She is also one of the executive producers of the TLC (TV network)/TLC reality program Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)/Who Do You Think You Are. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program/Outstanding Reality-Program for the series in 2012.

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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.

This isn't possible without you.

The tragedy, ... is that this woman needs something, and has expectations, that cannot be fully realized. And to keep herself in such an unforgiving environment, she goes back and forth between being really strong, and stupid about what her priorities are.

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.

Phoebe: I may play the fool at times but I'm a little more than just a pretty blonde girl with an ass that won't quit.

Some people aren't sure what to make of it.

Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.