Marta Kauffman Quotes

#1. I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Marta Kauffman

#2. Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.

Marta Kauffman

#3. Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

Marta Kauffman

#4. Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

Fennel Hudson

#5. To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.

Marta Kauffman

#6. If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

Paul Graham

#7. I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."

Marta Kauffman

#8. It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Gary Soto

#9. Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

Marta Kauffman

#10. She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#11. I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

Drew Barrymore

#12. A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

Robert M. Hensel