Top 40 Busy Philipps Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.”

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2. “Men love a woman who laughs at the joke, especially if the joke is at her expense. “She’s so cool. She just gets it.”

— Busy Philipps

3. “No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it’s something really spectacular, don’t tweet me your breakfast, I don’t care.”

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4. “I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!”

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5. “There are some people that don’t take jobs because they think that they’re too good for them or that they aspire to do something greater than the job that they’re being presented with. I’ve just never been from that school.”

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6. “Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I’ve got a life that is demanding my attention, so I’ve gone to prenatal yoga once. It’s such a bummer.”

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7. “My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He’s not into humoring me with my projects.”

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8. “Yes, I’m having a baby. I think it’s so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It’s great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it’s not about a number on a scale but how you feel.”

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9. “I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.”

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10. “The good thing about being pregnant is that I don’t have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!”

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11. “I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.”

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12. “I like starting off the new year fresh. I’m excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I’m an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year’s resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.”

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13. “And then I went to ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I’d never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite working experience.”

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14. “The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows – I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.”

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15. “I think it’s important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they’re sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.”

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16. “I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there’s nothing guilty about it.”

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17. “It’s weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I’m sure.”

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18. “I’m so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.”

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19. “Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.”

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20. “I’ve always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.”

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21. “Writing is difficult. It’s a time commitment, it’s labor and I’d have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.”

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22. “My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner – but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.”

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23. “As an actor, it’s always fun when you’re able to feel like there’s freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.”

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24. “I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don’t even really watch their TV anymore.”

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25. “I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that’s why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That’s why I do so many random comedy shows.”

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26. “I would never be on a reality show.”

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27. “Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.”

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28. “I do like to pop in and help my friends out when I can, or be a part of their projects.”

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29. “I just like working with people that I respect and think are really funny.”

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30. “I’m in the middle of my own ‘Project Runway’ challenge given to me by my daughter’s preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.”

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31. “For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That’s a drag.”

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32. “Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I’m having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don’t get them I’m disappointed.”

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33. “From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I’ve cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.”

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34. “I’m somebody who doesn’t work with a stylist. I’ll be honest with you, I’m a mom and it’s just not something I want to put money toward because it’s expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things so I don’t have a stylist.”

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35. “Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I’m taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from ‘Ace of Cakes’ at Duff’s Charm City Cakes. It’s, like, 4 three-hour classes.”

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36. “I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.”

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37. “As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I’d like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.”

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38. “Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.”

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39. “It’s so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it’s hard with one kid. I can’t imagine people who have more than that.”

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40. “I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.”

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41. “I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.”

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42. “I’m actually incapable of lying. I’m like a parody of a person who can’t lie.”

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43. “I just take jobs that will have me. I’m an actress that works. I’m not an actress who’s ever waited.”

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44. “I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn’t think I’d be able to do it. So there!”

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45. “I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.”

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46. “No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself.”

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47. “It was hard to imagine living in a world where women are so truly reviled that a man can brag about abusing them and still get elected president. But I did live in that world. Clearly.”

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