Leslie Mann Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. — Leslie Mann

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

I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all. — Leslie Mann

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

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

I've always surrounded myself with funny people. — Leslie Mann

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school. — Leslie Mann

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

Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see. — Leslie Mann

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

My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.' — Leslie Mann

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men. — Leslie Mann

Auditioning is so nerve-racking. — Leslie Mann

I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know. — Leslie Mann

Perfect people are the scariest people to me. — Leslie Mann

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times. — Leslie Mann

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural. — Leslie Mann

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things. — Leslie Mann

I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her. — Leslie Mann

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

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

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

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

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are. — Leslie Mann

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

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history. — Leslie Mann

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

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.' — Leslie Mann

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

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

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

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out. — Leslie Mann

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us. — Leslie Mann

I'm pretty much game for anything. — Leslie Mann

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

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

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest. — Leslie Mann

I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business. — Leslie Mann

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

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too. — Leslie Mann

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

Child actors don't have great track records. — Leslie Mann

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way. — Leslie Mann

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it. — Leslie Mann

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

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

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress. — Leslie Mann

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women. — Leslie Mann

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine. — Leslie Mann

Megan Fox is so funny. — Leslie Mann

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people! — Leslie Mann

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much. — Leslie Mann

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

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly. — Leslie Mann

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did. — Leslie Mann

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them. — Leslie Mann

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

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

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead. — Leslie Mann

Written by a woman automatically is better. — Leslie Mann

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit." — Leslie Mann