Top 70 Courteney Cox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!”

— Courteney Cox

2. “I’m not fake in any way.”

— Courteney Cox

3. “Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.”

— Courteney Cox

4. “Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.”

— Courteney Cox

5. “Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.”

— Courteney Cox

6. “Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don’t like.”

— Courteney Cox

7. “I want to change a lot.”

— Courteney Cox

8. “You never have to guess where you stand with me.”

— Courteney Cox

9. “The questions I’m asking myself are, ‘What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?’”

— Courteney Cox

10. “One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.”

— Courteney Cox

11. “What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, ‘This is what I need,’ and doesn’t feel bad about it.”

— Courteney Cox

12. “You know, my mother’s beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”

— Courteney Cox

13. “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?”

— Courteney Cox

14. “I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.”

— Courteney Cox

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

— Courteney Cox

16. “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.”

— Courteney Cox

17. “I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.”

— Courteney Cox

18. “Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.”

— Courteney Cox

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

— Courteney Cox

20. “I’m the first girl to say the word ‘period’ on television.”

— Courteney Cox

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

— Courteney Cox

22. “I don’t want to feel I’m responsible for anorexia across the country.”

— Courteney Cox

23. “I’m not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it’s not like I’m one to say, ‘Hey, let’s hang out at your house tonight.’”

— Courteney Cox

24. “There’s no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It’s all that really matters.”

— Courteney Cox

25. “What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.”

— Courteney Cox

26. “I don’t use a lint brush or anything, and I don’t iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.”

— Courteney Cox

27. “I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?”

— Courteney Cox

28. “Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.”

— Courteney Cox

29. “I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.”

— Courteney Cox

30. “I feel weird if I can’t move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.”

— Courteney Cox

31. “I’ve got some great guy 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.”

— Courteney Cox

32. “I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.”

— Courteney Cox

33. “I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.”

— Courteney Cox

34. “I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.”

— Courteney Cox

35. “I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It’s horrible.”

— Courteney Cox

36. “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.”

— Courteney Cox

37. “It’s so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.”

— Courteney Cox

38. “Botox? I think it’s fantastic and also horrible.”

— Courteney Cox

39. “Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.”

— Courteney Cox

40. “I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that’s at least a great start.”

— Courteney Cox

41. “I don’t like venison or sushi – I don’t want to eat what some people think are ‘luxurious’ foods.”

— Courteney Cox

42. “Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.”

— Courteney Cox

43. “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.”

— Courteney Cox

44. “I would probably say I identified more with drama. I’m a really emotional, sensitive person. I’m family-minded and I’m the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.”

— Courteney Cox

45. “I’m a real people person and I’m very sensitive, and I’ve just noticed how other actors that I’ve worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.”

— Courteney Cox

46. “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.”

— Courteney Cox

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

— Courteney Cox

48. “I’m a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.”

— Courteney Cox

49. “When I was a kid I didn’t feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldn’t say it, but, I didn’t think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn’t think anything was funny. I couldn’t laugh.”

— Courteney Cox

50. “I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I’m not precious, if it moves the story and doesn’t take away from it.”

— Courteney Cox

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