Other People on Jen

- in alphabetical order, sorted by last name

Tate Donovan (ex-boyfriend) said:
"I definitely want to get married; she definitely wants to get married. There are no proposals or anything, not yet, but we definitely think about it."
Olympia Dukakis said:
"Stupider people than me know that [Jennifer has what it takes for the long run]."

Melissa Etheridge said:
"[Jennifer and Brad] really communicate. They keep that personal connection there."
"[Both she and Brad Pitt] have a drive for success, but it never overshadows their drive for a healthy, happy life. They enjoy their careers, but if it was ever bad for them, they would so drop it."
"Jennifer's on her journey and she's really enjoying it. She's just very happy and very grateful."
"Jen is smart. I wish people would realize that."

Jason Flemyng said:
"A lot of people who are famous use it as a weapon to intimidate you, so you're never at ease. Brad and Jen know the effect they have, and they negate it as quickly as they can. They couldn't be more generous; there's no status hierarchy at all. Lots of big American actors pretend to be nice, but at some point you're firmly reminded of who they are and you go, `Oh, fuck, here we go.` With Jen, it's not like that. She's very proletarian."
"She's a female Brad. Couldn't be more gorgeous, yet utterly without vanity. They took me out a few times in L.A. and, this will sound strange but it was so nice to be around such normal people. We just ate Mexican food and talked nonsense."

Soleil Moon Fry (Guest star in The one with the girl who hits Joey) said:
"In the end, Jennifer Aniston and I get into a fight. I had bruises on my arm for a week. She was strong."

Cosimo Fusco (Paolo on Friends) said:
"People tried to kiss me just because I'd touched Rachel - men and women. There's a lot of envy out there."

Melissa George said:
"I love this girl so much. She was so good to me and she's so beautiful in person. I can't even get over that. When you see her physically, it makes sense. I was just like, 'Yeah, perfect, great casting'."

Jake Gyllenhaal said:
"We had been making out for weeks in other scenes, and this was just some more hip grinding; some more kissing. Jennifer turned to me at one point and said, 'That wasn't so hard. I've faked it before.'"
"The most complicated thing about this movie is that the woman has the power, not the men. You follow this character through this maze, and you should hate her. But because of the charisma that Jennifer brings to it, you love her somehow."
"We definitely had our breakdown days. It was a challenge for her to play this role. We had our times when she was just like, 'I f***ing suck, I can't do this.' And I'd have my days like, 'I f***ing suck.' But she's a really hard worker and I really like her, honestly. We would get scolded by the director because we'd joke around, and he'd get pissed. He wanted a very serious set. I remember we were in bed one day, and Miguel Arteta screamed, 'Stop joking around.' And I thought, 'This is Jennifer Aniston, motherf***er. You don't yell at her.'"
"In our sex scenes I spent most of my time covering her breasts. [...] A tough, tough job."

Kristin Hahn said:
"She finds joy and beauty in small things. She gets excited by a flower in her backyard. Most people let the gardener take care of that stuff. She is so grateful for what she's experiencing; that's why none of her friends resents her success. It's so easy to get lazy when you have everything at your fingertips, but I think that's why she and Brad hooked up. Each will make sure the other doesn't get lazy when it comes to the important things that matter when you're 80 and no one gives a crap. They challenge each other to have real intimacy, as opposed to getting away with what the world allows them to get away with."
"[Jennifer and Brad] both are committed to retaining who they are as individuals, and to doing everything they can to fight against the current of what everyone wants them to do. I think every celebrity is asked to be larger than life - beyond human. You have to be perfect in all sorts of ways. What we ask is mythic. We need people to admire, and we don't have a king and queen; we have royal couples, and Brad and Jen are a royal couple. But they are very graceful about it."
"Besides her colleagues from Friends, Jennifer doesn't have famous friends. She pals around with people she's known forever. Because they love her for who she is. It really is like a family. We have stuck together and there's a continuity that is very comforting. We're not the same characters as the ones on Friends, but there is that intense fraternity, and a deep love."
"Jen really loves babies. She's a real softie for them."
"I had a little apartment in Laurel Canyon about the size of a bathroom. And one night Jen came hopping down my stairs. I was taking something out of the oven, I turned round and there she was. She had that sweet glow about her. She just oozed love and she still does. We became instantly crazy about each other and spent every day together for the next few years."
"Jen would come and hang out with me during the day, lie on my couch, and talk about how she was never going to work. I think the wonderful thing about Jen is that she didn't become well known and then suddenly adopt another lot of friends who are fabulous. She's kept the things she's had since she was 19. Not just Andrea and I, but a bunch of us. And that's why she can't change, because we'd all know."
"Eight of us shacked up in one hotel room in Santa Barbara for three days. Our friend Michael Sanville, a photographer, would always come up with ideas for crazy shoots, mostly based around some ploy to get us naked."
"When the show hit, none of us saw a lot of Jen. For about a year and a half, she was so engulfed in the Beatles-like phenomenon that was Friends. There was definitely some jealousy on the part of the old friends. Here she was in a show called 'Friends' and we were her real ones. There was a period where we were hanging out, waiting for her to come out to the other side. And she did."
"I think Jen's happier than she's ever been. She's really finding ways of being in the world publicly and also finding ways to hide. That not to say it isn't really painful when people say she's anorexic, when I know, because I'm with her all the time - that she's healthier now than she's ever been. She's got a great relationship with food. Stories about Jennifer being a bad role model for young girls... It's a bummer that they had to happen but I think, for the most part, she's been able to rise above it."
"[On my wedding day, Jennifer] took a good hour and a half [doing my make-up], making killer Bloody Mary's all the while. In the end, Jen had five minutes to get ready, she didn't even care what she looked like. The music started and the only way for her and Andrea to get into the church was to come through the front and sneak past the altar."

John Hamburg said:
"It's a pretty big departure for her. She plays this wild woman who draws Ben Stiller out of his shell - someone who's very loose, which is not the way Rachel is at all. I mean, I'm not asking Jennifer to wear a prosthetic nose or anything, but it's very different, and she's very conscious of that. I remember when she first came to the set, she said, 'If you feel like I start doing a Rachel thing, just tell me, okay.'"
"I met with her and it just felt really right. I knew that she would have the ability to play the scenes opposite Ben and keep up with him in terms of comic ability and comic timing, but could also play the dramatic scenes. Jennifer brought so much to Polly, stuff that only she could create, and she is funny and sublime."
"She's just this amazing comic actress. I was trying to figure out who would play Polly. I knew that she would have the ability to play the scenes opposite Ben and keep up with him in turns of comic ability and comic timing."

Angie Harmon said:
"I'm in love with her. Everyone knows it, it's fine. I'm sure she doesn't mind me stalking her."

Stephen Herek (director of Rockstar) said:
"What I wanted for this character was somebody who, no matter what the outside influences would be, they'd end up doing the right thing. With Jennifer, you feel like you know her. It's just a matter of how hungry she is. I think she'll go as far as she wants to go. She could be the female romantic lead in just about anything."

Paris Hilton said:
"I would turn Brad [Pitt] down because I love Jennifer Aniston so much."

Nicole Holofcener (writer-director of Friends with Money) said:
"Like any good actor, Jennifer just becomes this other person. Believe me, I didn't forget. Obviously, celebrity doesn't mean anything in terms of talent. But I saw The Good Girl when it came out and I really loved this movie. She was so good in it, and I feel like [director] Miguel Arteta was the first to take a chance with 'Rachel Green' - because that's how we all knew Jennifer, from her Friends persona. Yes, she'd been in some other movies, but seeing her in The Good Girl especially helped me feel more confident that she could do this."
"Of course I want the focus to be on the ensemble, and so does Jennifer,'' Holofcener says. ``She doesn't want to be singled out, but it's inevitable. I just hope that people will realize that this is still very much the same world as my other movies. Jen slips right in."
"At first I thought, 'Oh God, she's going to quit'. But she was right there on time. There was paparazzi outside [the sets], but they didn't know where we were all the time. She didn't have that many exterior shots, and when she did, yeah, it was a pain in the butt. But we protected her. . . . We would walk her [from her trailer to the set] with flags covering her, so that they couldn't take her picture."
"Catherine [Keener], Jennifer and I would sit on the couch [being interviewed by television reporters], and Catherine and I could see in the monitor that the close-up was on Jennifer. We're not stupid. We were completely out of the frame. . . . And [Aniston, Keener and McDormand] just did The Today Show. It seemed like it was all about the movie [when they taped it]. But when it aired, it was completely about Jennifer and Vince [Vaughn, her current boyfriend]."
"If [Friends with Money] is just regarded as the new Jennifer Aniston movie, that's great. If it gets more people to see it, that's great. As long as they make enough money so that I get to make another one, that's all I care about."
"I think people are led by their representation a lot. I know there were a lot of mixed feelings about Jennifer taking my movie. Some were really supportive, and some people in her camp were very against it, like, 'You did your Good Girl!' It's so crazy; it's about a role, it's about a part. I do feel justified in that (Friends with Money being Jennifer's first good movie since Friends). I feel the movie came out well, and Jen is great in it. So I do feel a little bit 'I told you so' to those naysayers."
"Jennifer had seen 'Lovely and Amazing' at a screening. Catherine [Keener] brought her to it. And (she) loved it and said, 'I would love to be in a movie of yours one day.' We knew each other slightly socially through Catherine. I had originally imagined somebody older for the part, but I don't know, I kind of felt like she would be just right and if I could get her that would be amazing to do -- especially something so different from what she's done before. It was a challenge for me and a challenge for her. So I gave it to her and in the process Fran [McDormand] agreed to do (her role). The same way. [After everyone agreed] it was just waiting for Jen to decide, which she finally did, and (then) coordinating everybody's schedule. That was very tricky."
"It was amazing that it was only a couple of hours (of filming) when the stress level was just so high we all lost 10 pounds, you know. Just getting these shots with a handheld camera and (there were) so many paparazzi (trying to photograph Aniston), I wasn't prepared for that and was trying to get them out of her sight line, at least, or out of her face or out of the shot! And in that kind of situation where we couldn't control the Farmers Market, we were shooting regular people and we amazingly pulled it off. We had to choose some angles based on people staring at the cameras, but it went really well. It was just a challenging morning for everybody."
"I think she related to her [character] in some ways. I imagine that she has friends like the character that she plays. Jennifer is so wealthy. What friend could ever have as much money as she has, and what's that like? It must be really hard. And of course she knows what it's like to be depressed, even if her personality is generally cheerful."
"She had to blow her nose or something, and the makeup woman said, 'Here's a tissue,' and she said, 'No, if I hold a tissue they're going to take a picture of me and print that I'm crying.' And she wasn't crying. She was fine. She was completely composed and professional and seemed OK. She might not have been a barrel of monkeys, but she still had a really good vibe."

Kevin Huvane (her agent) said:
"People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy, so it was exciting to see Jen challenge herself with a film like The Good Girl - which is pretty much like the antithesis of Friends - and get the sort of recognition she deserves. I don`t think there's any limit to what she can do."

Nicholas Hytner (director of The Object Of My Affection) said:
"Her first instinct may be to put a very skilled, polished, funny twist on a line - and believe me, she can make anything funny. But she can equally, after moment's thought, find a much more interesting, more truthful, much more touching way of playing a scene. She has access to those basic large emotional sub currents that people are looking for when they watch a movie. She really reveals herself. On the show, week after week, her job is to keep funny material constantly air bone. But when she spends more of her time with material that requires her to exercise other muscles, her really considerable gift as an actress will be more widely recognized."

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