Courteney Cox Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

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 don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent, curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

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.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

When David Arquette 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.

Trivia

Courteney was pregnant during the filming of the final season of Friends.

Courteney's new TV project, Dirt will premiere on the FX Network, on January of 2007. In the show Courteney will play Lucy Spiller, editor in chief of two high-circulation celebrity tabloids. She's also the executive producer of the show along with her husband David Arquette.

Courteney raises awareness for the skin disease epidomolysis bullosa. She has designed an eye shadow palette -- Coco for Cargo Cosmetics. All profits will go to research, and hopefully find prevention for this disease.

Courteney attended Mountain Brook High School in Alabama.

Courteney has brown hair and blue eyes.

In 1997, Courteney was voted Best Dressed Female Television Star.

According to Australian magazine NW, Courteney and husband, David, recently travelled to New York to consult with a top fertility specialist as they attempt to conceive a sibling for their daughter, Coco.

In different years, Courteney was married on June 12, gave birth on June 13, and born on June 15.

Courteney shared a Screen Actors Guild award with the rest of the cast of Friends for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Comedy series.

Courteney studied architecture for one year at Mount Vernon College in Washington, DC.

Courteney appeared on the cover of the October/November 1995 issue of Fit magazine.

Courteney appeared on the cover of Sky International magazine. The feature story was titled "You think you know her? Think again."

Courteney had quit smoking the night before David proposed to her.

Courteney and David Arquette met at Scream director Wes Craven's dinner party just before filming.

Courteney used to play tennis and swim.

In 1995, Courteney was on the cover of People magazine and was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

In 1995 she hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with actor Jon Lovitz.

Courtney designed her own lipstick by Cargo. The lipstick is called CeCe (Cortney's nickname).

In 1997 and 1998 she was listed at number 9 in FHM's 100 sexiest women list (readers' choice).

Courteney dated Michael Keaton for over four years.

Courteney's daughter's name is Coco Riley Arquette.

Courteney starred in Family Ties as Michael J. Fox's girlfriend Lauren.

Courteney announced her pregnancy in January 2004, two months after David Arquette's brother Alexis broke the news on The Sharon Osbourne Show. The couple wanted to keep the news quiet because Courteney had several miscarriages.

Courteney is the girl that Bruce Springsteen picked up to dance with during the "Dancing in the Dark" video. Her second appearance in a videoclip was in the Counting Crows' "Long December". She was paid $350.

Courteney and husband David Arquette met on the set of Scream. The film came out on Christmas 1996 as a box-office smash that spawned two successful sequels.

Courteney's nickname is CeCe.