Elizabeth Perkins Quotes

• "Diane Lane and I have been really good friends for about 12 years now, so we usually spent every lunch together and after work and before work."
• "I have two cats, four fish, and we used to have a mouse named Fluffball, but he just died. We gave him a proper burial in the backyard, and everyone said something nice about him."
• "I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest."
• "I own two dogs-Buster and Lulu, they're both rescue pups."
• "I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine."
• "I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
• "I'd definitely consider it. My friend from high school went to internet dating and found a guy and they've been together for six years."
• "I'm doing a series on Showtime called Weeds, which is about marijuana, so I'm going to be the marijuana mom at school now."
• "If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."
• "It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed."
• "It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers."
• "My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies."
• "My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions."
• "My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over."
• "Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment."
• "We were just making this fun comedy with Stockard Channing, John Cusack, and Dermot Mulroney, so I wouldn't have called it work."
• "We're animal people."
• "When you're dealing with a large ensemble cast, there's a lot of character choices coming and going. He really allowed us to find ourselves on film."