- in alphabetical order, sorted by last name
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Anthony Abeson (high school acting coach) said:
“What you see on TV is only one part of what Jennifer has got to offer. She can go much deeper.”
Bryan Adams said:
“We shot this photo in the back of a parking lot in Los Angeles. Jennifer is so lovely, she was on the set of her new film (Friends with Money) and was nearing the end of her day but there was an army waiting for her to get out of her trailer and into the car. Every time I arrange a shot with Jennifer there’s an issue with the paparazzi. Some of the longest lenses we’ve ever seen were being paraded around the streets near the set that day.”
Joey Lauren Adams (co-star in The Break-Up) said:
“I was going back and forth between LA and Chicago a lot during the shooting of TBU. Jennifer would give me free rides on the private plane that the studio let her use, which was really sweet and so generous. Jennifer went out of her way to befriend me - she went above and beyond. It never felt forced. She’s so honest and upfront. She’s not a person who has all these walls built up. You can see inside her - she’s very open, in a beautiful way. You’d think that after years and years in America’s living room and the sort of fame that brings, she’d become more distant from people for her own sanity. But she doesn’t say, ‘I’m going to shut myself off.’ Instead she says, ‘I’m still going to live my life.’”
“Jennifer is just a really down-to-earth, nice person. She’s very open.”
Laura Allen (co-star in Dirt) said:
“She was wonderful. Her character drops two big bombshells on mine - two major pieces of information - in the season finale. She plays a rival magazine editor to Courteney’s, and they have it in for each other and apparently have a romantic past.”
Kirstie Alley said:
“I like the healthy thin side, that’s what I admire in others. A perfect example is Jennifer Aniston. I think she has an incredibly beautiful body. I think she looks healthy. I don’t think it’s too skinny.”
John Aniston (father) said:
“I don’t think any father who knows anything about this business would be thrilled to have a daughter in it. I wanted her to go to college, and she just didn’t want to. She was anxious to get on with it. Once she decided what she wanted to do, she was very driven.”
“The pressure on her is unbelievable, but she handles it with aplomb.”
Nancy Aniston (mother) said:
“Through an agreement I had made with the producers of the show, the interview was to be restricted to the Waldorf Method Of Teaching (the system that had educated Jennifer), it was not to be about my celebrity daughter!” (they cut out all the scenes that where about the school and only showed those ones with the comments about Jen) “I was livid. [When Jen called to say that she'll never forgive me] Jen’s voice was so distorted with rage I didn’t recognize it.”
“I knew on some level that I had lost Jennifer forever…” (September 1999)
Christina Applegate (Amy Green on Friends) said:
“It was great to work with Jennifer and be around Friends one last time.”
Courteney Cox Arquette said:
She’s a very deep person. She’s had a complex life and it’s not just been easy, which makes her extremely compassionate. Jennifer’s been through so many things, with relationships and family, things that have made her stronger. But she also has tremendous feelings. That’s what makes her so interesting. We kind of have a pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don’t hold it in for one second. Bottom line is that I trust her implicitly and the reason why I love her so much is that I feel very safe with her. Always.”
“Jennifer can be a little distracted. Like her Character (Rachel). But she’s so warm and funny. It’s impossible not to like this girl.”
“Sometimes I can’t believe that we’ll spend the whole day at work and then, let’s say, we get out of work a little early and there’s time to go get something to eat - and we’ll actually do that! I say, ‘We should split up, go somewhere else, see some other people.’ But we don’t. It’s pathetic. I know.”
“Jennifer is going to be an amazing mom. She has a huge, huge heart. You never have to wonder where you stand with her. She’s completely loyal. Even if she disagrees with you, she stands behind you. I think all those things will make her a great mom. They sure make her a great friend. I love, love, love her.”
“I never have to say, ‘Are you mad?’ and she doesn’t have to say, ‘Are you upset with me?’”
“She’s one of the most loving, caring people I know. No matter what’s going on with me, I know I can talk to her, and she would never judge.”
“Jennifer is an amazing actress, and I love her so much. She is such a real person, and she has so much talent, it’s unbelievable. Watching her play the dramatic parts on Friends and in other roles, and then doing the comedy in such an ethereal way, it’s just fantastic. She’s like my sister. I adore that girl. She’s my friend for life.”
“I was so jealous when I went to her house once and she was actually watching the sunset. She has a beautiful rose garden, and she takes things in. I’m too busy puttering and moving around. She has an amazing love of life.”
“I love her so much I can’t see straight. I’m very proud of her.”
“She’s one of my favorite people in the whole world, and always will be. One of my best friends.”
“Everybody talks about her hair. Don’t get me wrong, she has great hair! There’s just more to her than that.”
“Jennifer and Lisa are both two of my closest friends. I love them so much.”
“Today, when I wasn’t feeling well, the first person I spoke to this morning was Jennifer.”
“I don’t have the same qualities that Jennifer has. We have the same morals and sense of humour, but we’re different in many ways. If I had played Rachel, she would be more neurotic, whereas I think Jennifer has made her sexy, fun-loving, a little absentminded, and ethereal. I’ve got to tell you, I love the character of Rachel and I think there’s no one better to play her than Jennifer.”
“Jennifer gives me good advice a lot. So does Lisa (Kudrow), but David gave me the best advice in my life when he said I should ‘be true to myself- and be true to the importance of your wish or want’. Jennifer always encourages me to be like that, too.”
“Because one of my best friends in the whole wide world has a new movie and I have to see it!” - when asked why she’s at the premiere of The Good Girl
“She completely transformed. And, of course, she can because she’s a great actress. People think it’s hard for us, but it’s really not. The hard part is just getting the opportunity to play other roles. We’re not really our [TV] characters and I know people don’t believe that.” On Jennifer’s role in The Good Girl
“We had such a great time together and I love them both so much. We went through relationships and breakups together, through my marriage to David and my father dying. Those relationships are really sacred. I can trust Jennifer and Lisa with anything.”
“I love this picture. First of all, I think Jake Gyllenhaal is the cutest thing in the world. And then Jennifer’s expression is just so Jennifer to me. And I had just seen her movie, and I was so blown away. That’s probably what I was saying to her, how wonderful she is, and she was probably saying, ‘You’re so sweet.’” - commenting on a picture
“She’s a real girl’s girl. Guys love her, but women really love her and are not threatened by her. It’s a really good sign when someone has a lot of good girlfriends.”
“She just sent me the most beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day, but I don’t know [if Jennifer and Vince are getting married]. They have fun, I’ll say that much. They spend a lot of time laughing.”
“Jennifer really is a great sent to a lot of people. She’s never changed, even with her fame.”
“I remember the last episode of friends. There was… her best friends were all in the front row and I just thought, ‘That’s so great.’”
“She played Rachel in a kind of, like a little bit of a dizzy way, a little spoiled, a little - she had all these layers to her and she’s so likable that it just - it worked. I mean, you really loved that character.”
“We had fun. We had a lot of little cat fights when we were playing those characters. Rachel and Monica would fight over things.”
“Every single day she eats a salad and she orders it the exact same way. Light on garbanzo beans, turkey and some kind of lemon dressing made by a wonderful craft-services woman we call Mama, and pecorino cheese - Jennifer’s favorite.”
“Jennifer said she’s not opposed to [doing a Friends reunion]. When we say ‘reunion’… do a little thanksgiving episode, sure… why not what are we all doing? It sounds fun. Jennifer and I talk about it because we love each other and we hang out all the time. Why not do it? Will it happen? It’s a lot of different people to get into the room, its a whole big thing, so the chances of it happening is so slim. But would Jennifer and I? Sure, we’ll eat some turkey together.”
“Jennifer can tell me exactly what I wore the day I auditioned for Friends. She’s a freakoid.”
“She loves [Dirt]. She thought it was beautifully shot, and she knows this is a show that is fun and not to be taken seriously.”
“We’re shooting [the finale episode of Dirt, in which Jennifer will appear] this Thursday - I can’t wait. We’ll have a ball. We’re just going to have fun.”
“It is really not a big deal to kiss [Jennifer].”
“I am not saying don’t tune in to watch Jennifer on the show, because she is fantastic and you get to see us together again, but if you think it is just about a major make-out session, you will be disappointed.”
“Our first (assistant director) on Friends wanted us to [kiss]. In order for us to get a later call time, (the assistant director) dared us to kiss once and we thought about it. For the whole year we would get a later call time. We didn’t do it, no.”
“When she first arrived [on the set of Dirt] everyone was really quiet. It was like they were giving her respect and I was like, ‘This is my bud Jen. Come on people, let’s have some fun.’ And by day two everyone was more loose, and by day three we were having a ball.”
“Let me tell you. That girl cuts up just as much as the rest of us. She is very fun and she’s goofy and she is just a doll. She is a great fun person with a great sense of humor.”
David Arquette said:
“They became real friends while playing them on TV. That won’t end because the show is going off the air. They can’t just turn that off.”
“My wife and Jen are a great support system for each other, it’s fun to even look at them.”
“Jennifer loves the show [Dirt]. She’s already like, ‘What am I going to do? We were like, ‘Okay, if you came on the show, would you want to play yourself, or do we write a fantastic character for you, or you know maybe you take Dirt down?’ We’ll think of something good if it happens.”
“Jennifer’s great. When the marriage [between Jennifer and Brad Pitt] ended, it was sad.”
“[Jennifer and Vince Vaughn] dated, they really cared about each other.”
“Jennifer is the greatest girl. Those magazines, they take something and it’s working for them so they play it out, but she’s not really that sad about the whole thing. She’s the greatest, she’s such a sweetheart, she’s so funny.”
“I don’t think Jennifer hates [Angelina Jolie], I don’t think it’s like that. The way they depict it is completely wrong. She’s a very strong woman, she’s totally solid and she’s just got a great attitude.”
Miguel Arteta said:
“She reminds me of Mary Pickford, who, even though she was glamorous, played regular people, seemed very approachable and had an uncanny knack for physical comedy and drama.”
“The good thing is, when she came to the set, she really just gave herself to the whole thing. I didn’t feel as though we were dealing with a super-celebrity, or anything like that, she was just part of the ensemble.”
“[Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer] are subtle actors. They’re great. They’re amazing. That is why you gotta cast Jennifer Aniston in this part. To hear her deliver a line like that. Yeah, she’s awesome.”
“She had all these funny people around her with funny stuff to do around her, and she’s such a comic genius, she could go head to head with you guys. But she was really restrained.”
“She’s not harsh in real life. This was pretty intense, talking about ‘who needs a fucking baby anyway.’ It was pretty intense.”
“[Jennifer and Jake Gyllenhaal] had never done a full-on love scene before. They were both screen virgins. I’m really grateful for their trust to go ahead and really put themselves into this. I can’t imagine being an actor. It must be insanely absurd and hard.”
“[Jennifer and John C. Reilly] were very comfortable. They shot this scene at the end of the schedule. They were, like, ‘This scene is going to be a piece of cake.’”
“She’s really into it, as a performer. She’s really amazing. It was really amazing that she got how restrained this part had to be. There wasn’t much discussion about it on the set. She just came prepared in a way that just seemed to make sense.”
“I love the walk she made for the character. She came to the set with all these ideas, and it was great.”
“It’s amazing what she got across with this close-up, here. It’s like you almost get it all from just this look, here. Directing is weird, how you get these people to act things out and they don’t seem like part of you.”
“You do want [Justine, Jennifer's character] to get caught, but you’re also, like… you know, because of Jennifer’s performance, you’re hoping that she gets what she wants. This was a very intense day on the set. We did this scene and the next one, where they’re crying. They spent the whole day crying. All morning. All afternoon. We shot close-ups for this scene, but this was an instance where they’re worn out and you’re just… The two of them [Jen and John C. Reilly] are really great. It’s a two-and-a-half minute take.
They go from comedy to drama. Back and forth. All within this take. It was great. It was a treat. I remember, my lawyer was on set and her cell phone went off in the middle of this scene. John was, like, ‘My God, how could you do that to me?’ I felt so bad. She felt so bad. I’m really proud we were able to do it in one shot.”
“She’s incredibly beautiful, but it’s not other-worldly beauty, like a Sharon Stone. She’s very relatable.”
“She can do great dramatic work. But in a way, The Good Girl is the first role that has a real wide range of emotions all in one movie.”
“I was amazed. It was a physical transformation. She’s a very happy, animated person in real life. She’s the emotional center of the movie.”
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Kevin Bacon said:
“We had a connection almost immediately. She has a real good sense of when something’s not playing true. That’s a great thing because when you’re working with someone like that it always challenges you not to fall into your own traps.”
Kym Barrett (costume designer for Rumor Has It…) said:
“Jennifer had some very strong ideas of what Sarah would wear. She didn’t particularly want ‘designed’ clothes, as Sarah isn’t exactly a fashion-plate. We ended up making some of her costumes but other things that she wears we bought and then altered to make them look more like something she would wear in the period.”
Jason Bateman (co-star in The Break-Up)said:
“[Vince Vaughn's] one of the funniest guys I’ve been around. She couldn’t have picked a better person to spend a few months with while she’s going through all this. Vince really looks out for her.”
Andrea Bendewald said:
“Jennifer Aniston and I are best friends since we were 14, so the greatest part of doing the show personally was working with Jen. And also I had gotten engaged a week before when I got a call to come to the part. I said, ‘I’ll do anything. I’ll carry a tea cup.’ I called Jen, and she had no idea. So we got to spend a week at work, talking about being engaged, looking at wedding dresses together, so I was through the roof. And it was a trip professionally, because I know the cast really well but to be acting with them in front of an audience really was kind of like a dream.”
“Jennifer has done some rebuilding, restructuring, realigning and she came out this beautiful woman who is standing up tall and happy and full. I thought she was amazing two years ago, but now I look at her and say, ‘Slow down! You’re gonna start levitating soon, you’re so happy.’”
“Don’t let her fool you. The boys always thought she was beautiful back then. The world around her has changed in the last few years. The way the world perceives her has changed. But Jennifer hasn’t changed. She has always been a light for those of us who know her. She’s not someone who sits around and gets her feet massaged. At the shower a few of her friends gave her before her marriage, I took her aside and said, ‘Remember when we were kids and we would say we were going to move to California and be actresses and marry beautiful men? Well, it’s all come true.’”
“She just kind of bounced up to me and went, ‘Hi!’, and I went, ‘Hi!’ and that’s really what started it. We’ve been friends ever since.”
“Jennifer’s acting teacher (Anthony Abeson) was the one who told her, ‘You’re funny. You’re really funny.’”
“Jennifer had interesting hairdos in high school. She wore, like a lot of make-up, dark eyes and she was beautiful.”
“She got an agent, right out of high school and her agent was in New York, so she started auditioning.”
“She was nervous (about her first off-Broadway role) and excited and she was also ready. She’d been studying acting and wanting to be an actress for so long.”
“I remember her saying to me, ‘I think this show might be different from the other shows. It just feels really good and I love all the people on it. We had so much fun during the pilot.’”
“We took acting very seriously. Acting, studying and boys. Also, both our parents divorced when we were young, so we understood the pain of separated families, the back and forth of it all.”
Elizabeth Berkeley said:
“She’s a total pro.”
Phillip Bloch (her stylist) said:
“It’s not like she has the biggest breasts, but she has beautiful breasts. She’s not the most beautiful, but she’s really pretty. She’s not the most of anything, but all of it just works.”
“She’s always sexy, even in overalls and a tank top and she’s also fashion fearless.”
“She’s like, ‘No, that’s fine, I’ll just put a G-string on.’” - on when he offered her matching underwear for a sheer dress
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (producer of Derailed) said:
“She’s a smooth-working instrument.”
Debbie Bosse (mother of Ellie Claire Bosse, who played an infant in TGG) said:
“She was great with Ellie. She would keep her after the cameras stopped rolling, playing with her. It’s obvious she loves children.”
Jason Botterill (hockey player) said:
“It would have to be Jennifer Aniston, [for her obvious good looks].” - when asked which actress should play his love interest in a movie
Kevin S. Bright said:
“She was the part. She was funny. She was pretty. It all came through one big stroke.
Ed Burns, director of She’s The One, said:
“Everyone who’s seen the film so far has been blown away by her performance. It’s nothing like her character on FRIENDS. The girl can act!
Eddie Cahill (Tag Jones on Friends) said:
“When I was hired, I knew that there was the possibility that Tag and Rachel would become a couple, but it wasn’t a sure thing. That being said, the possibility alone was incredibly exciting.”
Kelly Carlson (Nip/Tuck) said:
“Look at Jennifer Aniston. She doesn’t diet. She goes running. And she’s gorgeous. Why aren’t people focusing on that?”
Glenn Gordon Caron (director of Picture Perfect) said:
“On some level, everything Jennifer does as an actor has to be with the business of being a human being. What makes her special isn’t peculiar to youth. I could see her working into her 60’s.”
“Like everyone else in the country. I watch ‘Friends’ and think she is fantastic. We understood each other very quickly and I knew she’d get to the heart of her performance right away. You see, as a director, if you are really prolific, you make one film a year. If you are a motion picture star, you may make two or three films a year. Jennifer, on the other hand, has been doing a television show for three years which puts her in a heightened state of readiness as an actress. This is her first starring role, and she was in every scene, every day. She did a wonderful job.”
“I knew Illeana’s Darcy would make a great counterpart for Jennifer’s Kate. Their relationship reminded me of the relationship Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau had in ‘The Fortune Cookie’.”
“Very few people can be funny and intelligent. She’s got the chops to be a wonderful dramatic actress.”
“Her character does things that are not very nice, [but] we forgive her. That’s a quality that’s rare among actors. Jack Lemmon had it; we let him sin and then redeem himself. Tom Hanks has it. But women, as a rule, are not afforded the opportunity, or we don’t recognize it as quickly in them. It’s a great gift that she has.”
“Jennifer exudes an extraordinary humanity, which you need to do this kind of comedy. No matter what kind of ridiculous or morally questionable things Kate does, you can always hear her heart beating.”
“When I told Jennifer that Kevin Bacon had signed on, she went, ‘I can’t act with Kevin Bacon! I love Kevin Bacon!’ She was so humble, so adorable.”
Jim Carrey said:
“Brad was constantly haranguing me. Did you kiss her, did you kiss her? No, he came around once or twice, very nice gentleman, really cool guy. They make a great couple, really sweet. She’s tremendous. We work well off each other because Jennifer is a completely different person than me. I’m a person who just throws myself out there and does wild stuff and she’s like the center of the wheel. She’s the type of person that can sit there and allow things to come to her. I seek them out and destroy them. It’s a wonderful kind of mix. She’s very solid and very centered. You look at all magazines you see her in and you just think it’s amazing.
Before you know her you wonder why are people so interested in this person. They just never seem to get enough of her and then you meet her and you go there’s a reason. She’s just a very cool centered person. Sometimes when you meet people like that you’re disappointed at the reality of them. The idea is always better. Sometimes they’re playing an idea and she’s just being herself.”
“Yeah, he [Brad Pitt] was all over me like a cheap suit. He kept saying ‘Watch it buddy! No tongue!’”
“Brad turned to me and said ‘THANKS man!’ ” - on the BA scene where he lets the breasts of Jen grow bigger
“Brad was constantly haranguing me. Did you kiss her, did you kiss her? No, he came around once or twice, very nice gentleman, really cool guy. They make a great couple, really sweet. She’s tremendous. We work well off each other because Jennifer is a completely different person than me. I’m a person who just throws myself out there and does wild stuff and she’s like the center of the wheel. She’s the type of person that can sit there and allow things to come to her. I seek them out and destroy them. It’s a wonderful kind of mix. She’s very solid and very centered. You look at all magazines you see her in and you just think it’s amazing. Before you know her you wonder why are people so interested in this person. They just never seem to get enough of her and then you meet her and you go there’s a reason. She’s just a very cool centered person.
Sometimes when you meet people like that you’re disappointed at the reality of them. The idea is always better. Sometimes they’re playing an idea and she’s just being herself.”
Vincent Cassel said:
“I was glad to work and have any scene with Jennifer, but it’s not like I was like “Oh my God! I’m going to be kissing Jennifer!”
George Clooney said:
“[Jennifer and Brad] are really fun. She’d come by the Ocean’s set, and you look over and go, ‘Well, there’s a homely couple!’”
“When it’s suggested that such an offspring would emerge glowing or just explode- too much for Earth.”
“Whenever you’re in trouble you throw it to Jennifer and she makes the lines sing. I would read things in the draft and go, ‘Wow, I don’t think that works.’ And then I’d see Jennifer do it and say, ‘All right, I was wrong.’”
George Clooney/Brad Pitt said:
George: “We had some good water balloon fights. I hit [Jennifer Aniston] in the head and she cracked her head on the window. I felt bad about that.”
Brad: “Well you know, if you’re going to play with the big boys…” BUT “She kept going. I think she got a shot off after that. She’s got an arm.”
George: “She did. She kept firing. She’s tough.”
Ted Cohen (Executive Producer on Friends) said:
“Jennifer brings a truth to Rachel that allows her to be funny, even when she and Ross are fighting, breaking up, having a baby, etc., which is incredibly rare.”
Steven Cojocaru said:
“I’ve always thought she was amazing because less is more and if your style is minimalist, go with it. This year (2006) was the emancipation of Jennifer! She really sort of came out and there was something fiery about her, and she wore great, sexy clothes.”
Kevin Costner said:
“Well she’s quite good and she’s the lead, I’m just a supporting character in this. And she’s beautiful and she’s working really hard, she’s very funny and we got Shirley MacLaine so it’s just really fun.”
“Uh yeah. We wrestled. We wrestle in the dark. And we do that too (kiss) She shoves me up against a wall. It’s love ain’t it.” - On his love scene with Jennifer
“She’s a decent woman. And that’s a.. that should minimize how great it is. That’s a good thing to say about a very decent person. And that’s a quality in which we could all be described and feel good about that.”
“She’s a very pretty woman, and very, very talented.”
David Crane said:
“Look at Jennifer. She was amazing in so many of the scenes we did regarding Rachel’s pregnancy, like when she’s looking for the first time at the sonogram of the baby, and she can’t find the baby. And she’s crying. It’s so moving because its so real and it’s hilarious at the same time. That’s an amazing skill, and a rare one. With most actors, you get one or the other: crying is sad and comedy is funny. As Rachel, she was able to sort of embody all of it. And there’s a warmth to Jennifer that comes through the screen. And that’s crucial because if you look at the character of Rachel, a lot of what she does is not that appealing. She can be selfish, she can be spoiled, and yet…”
“There needs to be some special element to make people want to pay money to see people they’ve been getting every Thursday night for nothing. Whether that element is The Good Girl, where she’s doing something entirely different, or Bruce Almighty, where it’s got a size you never see on television, [then] you’ll go, ‘That I want to see.’”
“Jennifer is wonderful at playing zany — she’s always pushing to do more physical comedy. But she can also break your heart.”
“What makes her extraordinary is that she can do emotional stuff in a way that feels so moving.”
David Cross said:
“I’d say hotter. But she was hotter in a different way than I expected - in a really ‘together’ way. You forget about how hot a woman can be when she’s completely independent and her own person. She’s awesome.” - when asked, “Is Jennifer Aniston as Hot or Hotter Than You’d Expect in Person?”
Sheryl Crow said:
“Jen’s an amazingly soulful person. She was completely generous in spirit and embracing and loving and compassionate and wise.”
“I think what she’s had to go through has been kind of demoralizing. To see that we’re stooping this low to press so heavily into somebody’s personal life and to vilify them, it’s discouraging. Yet she handles all of it with an immense amount of grace and compassion. She seems to always be operating from the heart.”
Joan Cusack said:
“She was very professional, and very relaxed and funny and pleasant and great. She was really great.”
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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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Mandy Ingber said:
“Success has changed her for the better. I think she has become more connected to her internal self. All the hype that’s put out there has forced her to go inward, to look at herself and say, ‘What do I want?’ - not just, ‘What do all the other people think I am?’ It always comes down to ‘Who am I?’ - without this career, without this man. Once you get everything you’ve dreamed of having, you’re once again left with yourself, and it’s like an identity thing. Having what you want is almost as much of a question-raiser as not getting what you want. Jennifer’s journey is bigger than just being an actress.”
Steve Ireland (Mr. Zelner on Friends) said:
“I had to do most of my scenes with Jennifer Aniston. Am I a lucky guy or what? When we were doing ‘The One With Rachel’s Inadvertent Kiss’, I left my script out on the table at home and my wife flipped through it during breakfast. I come in and she says ‘Wait, what is this? Jennifer Aniston touches your crotch?’, I said, ‘Oh no honey, it’s uh, all camera angles and special effects.’ (I don’t think she bought it.)”
Jason Isaacs said:
“I found it odd because I was so familiar with her. Like the whole of America I felt like I knew her really well. And suddenly there was this girl sitting next to me who is actually doing the scene rather beautifully, being a fabulous actress and it took me a little while to get over the fact that I don’t know her well at all. I never met her before. But you feel so intimate with people you’ve seen on television before.”
Richard Jenkins (father in Rumor Has It) said:
“She has such a big heart. When you meet her , you think, ‘I bet when you’re her friend, you’re always her friend.’”
Stephen Jenkins (co-star in Rockstar) said:
“I think Jennifer is a really cool girl and I liked working with her a lot.”
Angelina Jolie said:
“We’ve, like, passed each other and said ‘hi’ briefly, shook hands. But not a real sit-down-and-talk kind of meeting.”
Dylan Jones (editor of GQ magazine) said:
“Jennifer is the ultimate girl next door - the one woman every man wishes would call round asking for a cup of sugar.”
Mike Judge (director of Office Space) said:
“Demi Moore was kind of that way as well (enjoying to play with the fart machine). I guess when you’re America’s darling, it’s a nice release, that kind of humor.”
Martha Kauffman said:
“There is this proverb that says: ‘God doesn’t give with two hands.’ But with Jennifer, he gave with three hands.”
“We didn’t see a Rachel at all, until Jennifer walked in. Then it was amazing because there Rachel was. Jennifer just had this incredible ability to play such a brat and make you love her anyway.”
Catherine Keener said:
“I know Frances, so that was thrilling, and I know Jen, and that was thrilling. But Joan, I’ve never crossed into actually knowing her. I’ve just completely admired her, so that was really exciting for me, to hang out with Joan, just because she was the new different one, and there’s no one really like her. But there’s no one really like any of them, I guess. I mean, who’s like Frances McDormand? Who’s like Jennifer Aniston?”
“Oh, I love her in [Friends with Money]. I think there’s such a poignancy in her. You just knew that person. She just was that, all the time. It was sort of effortless, graceful. I always love her, but this was a different part for her. It was great to see.”
“It bothers me probably more than it bothers her. She’s so gracious and just a pro at it, and it’s just like, ah, swat it to the ground. I, on the other hand, have to jump down people’s throats and tell them to behave. I think it’s just feeding the beast and they just keep doing it, and it’s ridiculous. Everyone should raise the bar a little bit on themselves.” - on her (Keener’s) impatience with reporters grilling Jennifer about her personal life
“You know she’s a good cleaner! She is, I’m telling you! She is, she’s lovely she’s very much of a care-giver you know kind of person.”
Kris Kristofferson said:
“I have so much respect for Jennifer as an actress; it’s very easy for me to take direction from her. I think I’ll get more work if there are more women directors.”
“What I really like about [Jennifer] is that she knows what she wants. And … she’s not afraid to tell an old guy like me what to do and how to do it.”
“I just wanted to meet Jennifer Aniston, because I’ve always been a big fan of that TV series of hers.”
Lisa Kudrow said:
“Jennifer is just one big throbbing heart to me. Because she’s all emotional and feeling and support. She’s right there with you. Even if you came to her and said: ‘I’ve accidentally killed someone.’ She’d say, ‘Honey, it’s not your fault. It couldn’t have been your fault.’ Just that kind of loyal, unconditional support and love is just who she is to me.”
“Jennifer is way more spiritual than me. Sometimes I think she would have been a great Phoebe.”
“There was this backlash after our second yea on the show. We were overexposed. We weren’t used to being actors who had choices. We did a Diet Coke commercial, as a group, because the studio wanted us to do it, and Jennifer was the lone voice saying, ‘I don’t think we should do that,’ she has good instincts, because after that there was nothing but negative press, pitting us against each other, in terms of who was getting what movies and so on. We all got slammed, but we talk about everything, especially us girls, and we work through those things.”
“She’s very emotional, spiritual, loving and supportive, whatever you say, she’s going to find a way to support you with it.”
“['The Rachel' haircut] is a great haircut. But most women just don’t wear it as well as Jennifer. They can cut it however they want, but they still won’t be her.”
“No one [plays with the fart machine] as well as she can. [And] it’s a huge compliment. It’s funny when she does it, because it doesn’t seem very sophmoric - it seems very sophisticated. Because she’s so subtle. It’s fun to watch her go through her array of embarassments.”
“Jennifer is all about love. Whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re wearing, she loves it. If you hate your dress, she’ll say, ‘But wow, look at your hair!’ She’s good through and through, and that comes out.”
“She’s just a good person and she has a huge heart.”
“No matter what’s going on, she is always tuned to you.”
Ashton Kutcher said:
“The last tine I was single I wasn’t famous. I had Jennifer Aniston as my screensaver, the Rolling Stone magazine picture where she was naked. And I know that, at that point in time, if I would have met her, I wouldn’t have even thought twice about who she really was. I thought I knew who she was just from her image. So I could see how people could see me as some image.”
“I’ve never even seen her and I still have a thousand-dollar bet going with somebody that someday I’ll get a date with her, which is kind of a moo point now. ”
“I’ll never have to pay that bet off. I’ll go to my death saying I’m going to take out Jennifer Aniston.”
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Matt LeBlanc said:
“Jen is one big giant heart. Over the last couple of seasons, I’ve had the pleasure of really working close with Jen. And she’s so alive on stage and she really works from the heart and is really sensitive and really has a great work ethic and is just dynamite.”
“Jen doesn’t like to overwork things. She has a real fresh loose-cannon-y thing about her that’s real exciting to work with.”
“She’s a - just a giant heart with a head and feet. That’s Jennifer Aniston, yeah.”
“Jennifer [Aniston] and I kind of clung together at the end. We were both having a really hard time. ” - about the end of Friends
“Yeah, David just directed an episode but Jennifer is the one you really have to get away from. She brings flocks of paparazzi with her. One time we happened to be at the same valet parking. We greeted each other and kissed on the cheek. Of course the one thing they got was a picture of us that looked like we’re making out!”
“I’m still not the famous one. That’s Jennifer. We were having lunch last year and photographers were all over us. They snapped us outside the restaurant giving each other a goodbye kiss on the lips. The papers had a field day. You can’t really go near Jennifer. You do, and you’re all over the world headlines.”
“I had a little crush on Jen in the very beginning, but I think the whole world did too, so what are you going to do? That didn’t last very long because they did become like sisters. Jen became like a little sister and Courteney and Lisa became like big sisters.”
“Jen is just an angel with great advice all the time.”
Angela Levin (makeup artist for Rumor Has It and The Break-Up) said:
“Jen has an amazing ability to see the bright side of things. She has a very healthy, positive outlook on life, and it really does show. I think the beauty secret for a lot of women is happiness - it shows on your face.”
Doug Liman (producer of Mr and Mrs Smith) said:
“The next year, Jennifer got Friends. I was like, You guys were idiots not to let me cast the person I wanted.” - on casting Jen in one of his movies
Ron Livingston said:
“I was nervous about it. But the first day of shooting she smiled and looked me in the eye. She dropped her guard is what she did. And she totally disarmed me.”
Lindsay Lohan said:
“I love how she dresses. She’s very classy, but at the same time, she’s fun and down to earth. She can never dress wrong, and I really admire that.”
Justin Long said:
“She is just lovely. Reacts to every compliment like it is the first one she’s ever heard. I don’t know how she does it. But I watched her at ‘The Break-Up’ premiere in Chicago … There were no ropes, you know, so she gets out of the car and moves toward the crowd to shake hands and suddenly there is just this enormous surge of people. She had to almost run back to the carpet. It was kind of scary.”
Shirley MacLaine said:
“This woman has a core of real understanding of how to deal with suffering, and a capacity to separate her suffering from the discipline of work. We had some long talks, which I don’t want to discuss, and got to know each other, and I admire her and what she went through — and probably still is going through.”
“I have maternal feelings towards her. Everything had hit, and it was just national news on a level that’s not fair to anybody. Jennifer’s emotional discipline to keep it together was really extraordinary. I don’t know how she did it. She’s remarkably levelheaded about the love she still feels in her heart after having been hurt.”
“I’m really proud of her for the way she is handling this while also being an icon — if you can be one at 36, of knowing what to do when you get trampled in public. Her emotional discipline is extraordinary, and I really want to compliment her for that.”
“I saw her go through that breakup. She leaned on me for support and we had long talks, which I will not discuss here. She really responded well to my advice… She’s definitely a good girl.”
Molly Madden (manager from the past) said:
“At the time, we were seeking out a character for Jennifer to sink her teeth into. Kate is a modern woman struggling with a career and personal life. I knew Jennifer as an actress would utilize both the irony and comedy of the character’s situation.”
Laurence Mark (producer of The Object Of My Affection) said:
“She is the girl next door - the idealized version. She’s really pretty, but somehow you can believe she might live next door, if you were lucky. With Jen you feel this immediate connection.”
“Jennifer is the girl next door - or the girl you’d like to have next door. And she’s a better actress than her TV work let’s you see.”
Chris McMillan (friend and hair stylist) said:
“I first met Jennifer Aniston when she was shooting the pilot for Friends. Her manager brought her to the salon and said, ‘Chris, I’ve got this great girl, but she need a little help with her hair.’ I wanted to get rid of her bangs, so I layered her hair while they were growing out. That’s how we ended up with The Rachel cut. For the past 11 years, I’ve done Jennifer’s hair for pretty much every event. Once, when I got to her house, she still hadn’t washed her hair, and her nails were wet from a manicure. I actually got in the shower and shampooed it while she held her hands up in the air. And, as you’d expect, we’ve been close ever since.”
“After I gave Jen a French twist for Monica’s wedding on Friends, she said, ‘Chris, if I ever ask for a French twist again, remind me that I hate them.’ For that reason, and because she has gorgeous hair, I don’t do many updo’s on her. One of her favorite styles is just glassy straight and parted off-center. If it’s going to be a long night, like the Emmys, I spray PhytoVolume Actif Maximizing Volume Spray at the crown after I towel it dry. Her hair is fine and straightens easily with a round brush and a blow-dryer, but there’s a lot of it. I normally go over the whole head with a flatiron without getting closer than one inch from the roots. Then I’ll finish with Kérastase Serum Nutri-Sculpt on the ends. Lately, I’ve pulled her hair into a loose side ponytail, which looks adorable over one shoulder.”
“When Jennifer was filming Along Came Polly, she needed a rougher, wavier texture to match her character. This style also looks great with a straight gown, like the one she wore the Golden Globes. I always start with clean, damp hair, make an off center-part, and push her bangs to the side. A little PhytoVolume Actif Maximizing Volume Spray at the crown lifts the roots. I tousle her hair with my fingers as I blow it out, and when it’s 75 percent dry, I switch to a diffuser to remove the remaining moisture. Once her hair is dry, I wrap random sections around a curling iron for imperfect waves. Her bangs can be tricky because if they’re too smooth, they won’t match the rest of her hair. I usually dab Tancho Pomade on my fingertips and run them through the bangs to rough them up.”
“She has a sex appeal without trying to be overtly sexy. She’s a golden girl, head to toe.”
“Her willingness to try new things is the best part.”
John Melick (Jen’s half-brother) said:
“She’d run around the house making that ‘Bananananananananana!’ sound effect, directing herself through parts of the show.”
“[Our parents' divorce was] like a slap in the face for her.”
Debra Messing said:
“Jennifer is so lovely - you forget she’s famous after about three minutes of talking to her.”
Jennifer Meyer said:
“I hit the jackpot. If somebody said, ‘Who do you aspire to wear your jewellery?’ I would have said Jen.”
“She starts a frenzy whenever she wears anything. I’ve gotten calls from around the world. Everyone wants what Jen wore. That’s the power of Jennifer Aniston. She never tries to be something she’s not.”
Jay Mohr said:
“People lined up on the street at seven o’clock in the morning, five deep, to watch her get out of a car and walk into a trailer.”
Julianne Moore said:
“I’d take Jennifer Aniston’s body - the whole thing.”
Dermot Mulroney (Gavin on Friends) said:
“It’s a fantastic cast. What I was struck with is how well they got along. And of course Jen is just a delight all around. It’s not just her charm and her good looks-it’s that other kind of unique appeal.”
Brittany Murphy said:
“I think that she’s classic, classy, beautiful, lovely…just the greatest.”
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Margaret Nagle (writer) said:
“I’m currently working on two projects for Jennifer Aniston. Oh, that one can sing and she’s such a joy to work with.”
Kathy Najimy said:
“My first impression of her were the ones I have now. She’s always been very supportive of me and my activism. Whether it’s AIDS things or choice issues, you name it, she’s done it. Now she’s Queen Of The World, but there’s no big challenge.”
“You go through a lot of different relationships with friends, but never was I absolutely positive like I was with Brad. I saw how much he loved her. I went home and I was weepy about it. She was 100 percent herself with him, and that’s all I really wish for my friends.”
“Her clothes are the exact same. Her T-Shirts, her little tank tops, her cargo pants and her flip- flops.”
“There’s no insecurity going on. They’re themselves. They do the things you and I do: go to restaurants, play games, go to work, go on trips. They really, truly are in love with each other.”
“I think she handles her fame with extraordinary grace and I mean, she’s literally one of the most famous people in the universe. And, at the same time, really one of the kindest, authentic, original, wonderful people I’ve ever met in my life.”
“I’ll tell you one thing for sure. Jennifer would never compromise a relationship for a career choice.”
“It’s not like she woke up one morning and said, ‘I’m mad at my mom.’ She’s really made such huge efforts to try to get it straight. But sometimes it’s more productive to say, ‘Distance is going to heal this.’ That’s where she is now.”
“She cares about what people think of her.”
Clive Owen said:
“I get close to Jen but it’s not straightforward, it’s twisted and freaky. There are love scenes but not the type you would expect.”
“Considering all the pressure she’s under, the magnitude of public interest, she is surprisingly grounded, a lovely girl and a very, very good actress.”
“She’s lovely, incredibly level-headed considering the spotlight that is on her. Its an inspired casting, she’s a really great actress whether she’s playing a straight part or comedy.”
“Comedy is very, very difficult to pull off, you know? And she’s very, very good at it, and very def(t), and you have to be very smart to play comedy well. So, it’s just applying it to something else. I don’t think that, you know, it’s-it’s a huge leap for her in that way. It’s just that she maybe hasn’t done it before.”
“Both Julia [Roberts] and Jennifer are the nicest actresses and people. They genuinely are. You don’t know what to expect, and you find the loveliest, smartest person you could have ever wished for.”
Trey Parker (Southpark) said:
“You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, “Boy, I’d like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston.”
Amanda Peet said:
“I love her, love her, love her.”
Robin Wright Penn said:
“I was approached first with … ‘Hey, you want to do this short that Jennifer Aniston’s directing?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I do!’ because I always loved her from afar. And then they told me that it was stories made by women for women and I just thought, what a great opportunity. This is the new millennium for women. Women are in film. They’re here. There is a pulse. It’s just we need to open the screen door.”
“I loved working with Jennifer. She’s very in tune and a very calm presence. There’s such a genuine feeling on the set, just, you know, girls. There was a real sense of that community. And she being the leader, she was incredible.”
“[Jennifer] was very loving and calm and knew what she wanted. She’s not aggressive, meaning mean. But (she’s) assertive with her vision, and making sure that everybody was in the team together.”
Rosie Perez said:
“We had a real boost from Jennifer Aniston (doing the 24-Hours Play on Broadway). She was as sweet as pie. I really appreciated her coming because she raised the profile of tonight’s event and that is going to help so much. She didn’t have to do this. She didn’t have to take time out of her schedule.”
“The 24 Hour Plays people approached her and she said yes. But when she found out about Working Playground, she was over the moon. She said, ‘I’ll do all the press. I’ll do whatever you want.’”
“She’s got chops. She said she had performed Off-Broadway. She’s really, really good.”
Matthew Perry said:
“Jenny… Jenny is a really hard worker. Jenny, being very sweet and stuff, has had some stuff in her life that she had to address and she just has. Right in front of our eyes I’ve watched Jen blossom into this beautiful woman.”
“She has an intelligent sexiness about her. She’s not making that much effort, and that’s what women appreciate.”
“Let’s just say you want to think twice before getting into a car with her.”
“I was inspired by Jennifer’s wedding. It was the most romantic night of my life, and I wasn’t even getting married.”
“I kind of had that feeling of you’re just about to cry for five hours, but Jennifer Aniston’s over there sobbing so you have to go take care of her.”
“Another person I’d walk through fire for.” (the first being Bruce Willis)
“She’s not afraid to look kind of goofy and still be real.”
“That was the look, right? That didn’t sweep the nation.” - referring to a hilarious looking hairdo of Jen’s in high school
“We auditioned for a movie read called, if I remember correctly, Camp Cucamonga, which she got and I didn’t.”
“Ferris Bueller was, you know, a great movie and I think she probably had high hopes for it.” - referring to the short-lived series Ferris Bueller
“We all had our share of failed TV shows. Just goes to show you that one great person is not a hit.”
“I probably had more haircuts. But she certainly had the more famous one. She’ll still love if that came up. That’s her favorite thing to talk about.”
“God gave with both hands to Jenny. Yeah, she has personified that kind of - you know, she’s very beautiful and also can be really funny and that’s odd, that’s rare. And that’s why, I think, she’s been so successful.”
“She’s a very hard worker, and I mean mostly in her life. If there’s some issue, she goes and just works it out.”
“She’s worked hard to put herself in a position to do what she wants to do.”
“I don’t know anything that she is not capable of.”
Brad Pitt said:
“Jen is one of the warmest people I met, we all crowd around her. She’s like that fire we all crowd around for warmth. There’s not an ill-intentioned bone in that woman’s body. She’s really extraordinary that way. She brings people together.”
“I like being married, and Jen is great. She doesn’t even mind me eating ice-cream in bed.”
“I never thought being married would make me feel this way. It’s an amazing feeling. I look at Jen and think…she’s my wife.”
“Marriage is great. It’s made me feel very good about taking this kind of journey together with a terrific woman who wants to share my life and share the journey with me.”
“I like girls like my wife. She’s funny, she’s a pain, and she makes me laugh. She’s not the greatest at sports, but she still tries, which makes me laugh more. She gets on my nerves and I get on her nerves and then she makes me laugh again. She’s got a lot of personality.”
“We bicker over household chores and who forgot to turn off the coffee machine. I believe I’m the one who does it all, and she believes she’s the one who does it all.”
“Jen gets a lot done when she’s asleep. She’ll, like - I think you’ve heard this story, I caught her outside one night. The alarm was going off, and I found her outside - literally, she had to negotiate through, like, three or four rooms, and I find her standing outside. We were living on the cliff that time. It was not good. Other times, I’ll hear drawers opening and closing in the other room,
and I figure, `I’ll just go back to sleep, she’ll be back. She’ll get some stuff done… She speaks a lot. Yeah, we’ve had some of our best conversations. Really moving. I think the latest one, she went on some five-minute dissertation on the need for ‘Tuesdays with morrie’ in our contemporary society, or something like that. She gets in there. I learned a lot. She is teaching me things. But my favourite one was a few years back, and I’m laying there, and it’s deathly silent. I can’t sleep. She’s sleeping peacefully, and all of a sudden, I hear, ‘Bring on the young men in the uniform!’”
“Jen and I — everything is on the table with us. We discuss everything. She asked if I was in the doghouse.”
“She’s fantastic, she’s complicated, she’s wise, she’s fair, she has great empathy for others… and she’s just so cool.”
“She’s really extraordinary… she has taught me a lot. She’s one of the warmest people I ever met.”
“We talk about it all the time. I’m on to it, don’t worry. I think Friends is hilarious. I will be sad when that show goes off air. But I cannot wait for everyone else to see things she can do, because that show is just one facet of her talent.”
“The bathroom was the first thing in the house I worked on at the time Jen and I were really hooking up strong. Things are on your mind… and I guess I had a dirty mind at the time. It is a bit hedonistic in there. It is a sexy room, it works.”
“My wife loves jewellery, and I love my wife. She’s always my inspiration. I started doing this because I wanted to make something special for her.”
“My wife is cool, very funny, great to be with.”
“I can’t wait to shave (my beard) off. Jennifer can’t kiss me properly.”
“What can I tell ya, I love my wife! Listen, it’s not that complicated, really. On the phone with my wife, or hanging out with (George Clooney)!”
“I just think it’s my favorite movie of the year. I’m a little biased, but I’m also a good critic. So take my word on it. It’s subtle. It’s delicious. Believe me.” - on The Good Girl
“I laughed, I cried. It’s a gem. Trust me — it’s a gem.”- on The Good Girl
“[This is] three times for me. It’s my favorite movie of the year!” - on The Good Girl
“There aren’t many actors I would feel comfortable seeing kiss my wife, and you [Bruce Willis] aren’t one of them.” - taped message referring to Willis’ Emmy Award winning stint on Friends as Jennifer’s love interest
“I’ve always known she was amazing. I don’t think anything blossomed in her this year [2002, The Good Girl] that wasn’t there already. It just seems the rest of the world is waking up to what has been there all along.”
Freddie Prinze Jr. said:
“Jennifer is the sweetest, most sincere person… not to mention she is so damn funny! I completely lost it every time she screamed ‘Damn you, Geller’ from off screen while David was firing me as their nanny. I could barely get my lines out or keep a straight face. She is truly an original.”
Peyton Reed (director of The Break-Up) said:
“Vince and Jen had great chemistry. They worked so well on all levels - they were great together.”
“It’s an anti-romantic comedy. They start playing on each other’s insecurities and there’s a level of gamemanship there that you can imagine gets pretty intense. It was kind of an adventue to be doing rehearsals and you look out and there all these guys with nine-foot telephoto lenses trained at you.
I found myself being very protective of Jen, but she’s so amazing and such a caring person she wound up being protective of me. It was really unbelievable.”
“She is every bit a movie star. When she comes on-screen, you can’t take your eyes off her.”
“The film is a comedy that we tried really hard to ground in reality, so that a lot of the arguments this couple has as they are breaking up are very real. Working opposite Vince, Jen gets to flex her comedic muscles, which are formidable, but she also gets to do a lot of dramatic work in the movie. She just knocked it out of the park.”
“Had I not gone to the newsstand and seen the tabloids, I would never have known something of that magnitude was going on. She was able to come to work and dig in and just make it a joy every day. Only Jen can speak about her process, but her performance in the movie, when it hits those notes of pain at the end of a relationship, has an immediacy that I was just blown away by.”
“When I came on board, Vince was obviously attached, but we had not cast a Brooke yet. He’s also 6′5”, so you have to cast someone who can really be a presence in the frame. It takes a tough woman to be able to spar with Vince’s rapid delivery on screen, and Jennifer definitely holds her own. I loved the idea of the potential chemistry between these two actors.”
“Vince and Jen would stick close to the script. But after a couple of takes, when we knew we had it, we’d just let ‘em go.”
“It became very clear on Day 1 that [Jennifer and Vince] had crazy chemistry.”
“[Ann-Margret] is the perfect mom for Jennifer. They got along really well. [Ann-Margret] got a kick out of it.”
“It was fun making The Break-Up. It’s fantastic to work with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as they are both at the top of their game. There was a great rapport with them on set.”
Andrew Reich (Executive Producer on Friends) said:
“Jennifer has an ability to make the audience empathize with her that’s unprecedented.”
John C. Reilly said:
“A regular girl. She seems like the girls who were wearing her hairstyle.”
“Y’know, for all her popularity and glamour she’s kind of an ‘every-woman’. There’s something about her that girls across the suburbs of the world can relate to.”
“I’d heard of her, obviously, and her haircut surrounded me for a couple of years when every girl had it. But I was like, ‘Jennifer Aniston? That girl on the TV show? Wait, explain that to me.’”
“She’s the real deal, just real ordinary. She put to rest whatever questions people had.”
Rob Reiner (director of Rumor Has It…) said:
“Jennifer takes us through Sarah’s emotional journey. She’s sexy and adorable and plays comedy as well as very real emotion. It’s a rare combination to find in someone.”
Julia Roberts said:
“Oh gosh… sunshine… pure sunshine… just sunny. Ugh… and his wife - moonshine. Just perfect. They’re both so… ugh. yes.” - when asked what she thinks when she hears Brad Pitt’s name
Paul Rudd said:
“I’m in the makeup trailer this morning. And all the women were talking about how much they love Jennifer Aniston. They don’t know her! But they do love her. People have the nerve to walk up and ask the most personal questions. The biggest testament to Jen is that she doesn’t make them feel stupid for asking. She graciously responds.”
“She discovered “fart in a can”. That pretty much took over the entire shoot. Everyone was obsessed. I don’t care if you’re a surgeon or a plumper - farts are funny, and they never get old.” - on Jen’s obsession with farts
Mark Ruffalo said:
“Awesome. Love her. I had such a good time. So classy, kind, and in the face of everything that she was going through - which at the time I had no idea - I even love her more.”
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Charlie Schlatter (co-star from Ferris Bueller and ex-boyfriend) said:
“It is funny. Every few months I get a call from People magazine for comments about Jennifer. And I just say she’s a great girl, a great actress and she’s got a nice career. Had I known I was making history, I would have been a better boyfriend.”
David Schwimmer said:
“Jen is… she amazes me, she’s generous. A warm, warm person. Just always puts the other person first and I think it’s a gift.”
“I believe Jen to be one of the finest comediennes ever, her timing, her instincts are so, so good, and so on the money. She has this rare combination: not many girls that attractive are that funny and have that much heart. She’s got the emotional life underneath it to match the funny. And she’s adorable. It’s a triple threat and an honour to have worked with her.”
“She’s amazing. I really compare her to Lucille Ball - one of the best comediennes of all time.”
“When Jennifer and I play these characters we have really good chemistry, and we both enjoy doing scenes together. I hope, given the history between the characters, there is another last round for them.”
“Jennifer was amazing in that episode ["The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 1"], but then again, she’s always amazing.”
“It’s a job - someone’s gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day’s over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.”
“When we filmed our breakup scene last season, it was so devastating that it caught us both by surprise. I was actually embarrassed by how long it took me to recover from the first take. Jennifer made it so real.”
“I did ask Jennifer if she would mind if I wore a wig and did that naked bum pose on Rolling Stone magazine [...] She said, ‘Don’t you dare.’”
Ivan Sergei (co-star in The Break-Up) said:
“Even though she was going through her own breakup and it was all in the tabloids, she just always had a smile on her face.”
Tom Shadyac (director of Bruce Almighty) said:
“Jennifer just has `it`, if you look at the handful of A-list actors that exist in Hollywood, you realize that the thing they all share, in addition to being beautiful and talented, is this amazing reliability. When you watch Jennifer, she manages to amaze you and make you feel like she might be your next-door neighbour at the same time, which, when you consider how much money she makes and who she’s married to, is pretty incredible.”
“It’s hard for her not to be cute. She’s got a playful sensibility about her. She’s very accessible.”
“I don’t like to use the well-known cliché but Jennifer Aniston is one of the hottest people in the show business. You can count the people, if male or female. Jen’s role, Grace, is not passive. She’s strong, that’s why we wanted Jennifer.”
“She was a dream choice. (in Bruce Almighty) You’re looking for someone who’s beautiful, funny, sexy, intelligent, vulnerable. She’s perfect in her naturalness.”
“Fisherman that he [Jim Carrey] is, he might catch a 7-pounder, but there might be a 12-pounder out there. So we shoot a lot, and that’s a very different process for Jen. Jen’s come mostly out of television, where they know their characters. It’s three takes and done.”
“There’s no question in my mind she’s going to be Jen Almighty. If you’re pretty and you’re funny, you’re going to be in high demand.”
Stacey Sher (producer of Along Came Polly) said:
“She has a unique physicality to her. Take her talent for screwball comedy, in the tradition of a Lucille Ball, coupled with how adorable and gorgeous she is, (and that makes for) an irresistible combination. You don’t see that often.”
Jane Sibbett (Carol on Friends) said:
“During my first or second episode, it was raining hard-big puddles all over the Warner Bros. lot and the girls - Courteney, Jen and Lisa had to go and play in the puddles. It was so great seeing them come back sopping wet from their heads to their toes, sides aching with that delirious laughter, having to hold each other up it was so funny, that I suddenly had this clear picture, that with that kind of giddy fun, if they could hold onto that, if they could bottle that joy, they could do anything in this world. And they did, didn’t they? Every week.”
Lisa Snowdon said:
“You can’t compare yourself to her at all: she’s just beautiful and perfect. I was always going, ‘I want Jennifer Aniston’s arms’, and doing some really silly exercises. She didn’t exercise once and her body was just amazing. She ate ate ate pasta. I’ve actually become quite friendly with her. We had a couple of weeks to hang out, and then in Rome we hung out a little bit more. She’s one of my favourite people actually.”
“Jennifer is just wonderful. She’s a bit like Rachel but less scatty - very well put together. She’s extremely tactile, one of my favourite people. I’m a big fan.”
Britney Spears says:
“I’m famous, but I’m not as famous as freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.”
Brent Spiner (guest-star on Friends) said:
“Eighty million people saw that show, and I had one tiny little scene. A scene with Jennifer Aniston. You know what - she kept saying something to me, and I don’t quite get it - she kept saying, ‘You are so much cooler than Brad.’ Who’s Brad? Is that, like, another actor on the show or something? Anyway, it was really fun doing FRIENDS, actually. It was a very short little scene - when they asked me if I wanted to do it, I said, ‘Well, it’s so small,’ and they said, ‘It’s just you and Jennifer’ and I went, ‘Okay!’ The thing I’m proudest of is, I actually wrote a line and they used it - it was a line about Hugo Boss, and it got a big laugh and I was really pleased with myself.”
Cole Sprouse (Ben Geller on Friends) said:
“My favorite cast member to do scenes with is Jennifer…, ’cause she’s hot.”
Bob Stephenson (co-star in Friends with Money) said:
“She’s incredibly giving, and she doesn’t walk around with an entourage at all. She just shows up with, basically, her security people that she has to have now, since there were 40 paparazzi camped out across from where we were shooting every day. We started shooting this movie right after the announcement of (Aniston and ex-husband Brad Pitt’s) splitting up came out, so it was really nuts. But you would never know from being with her every day. She’d show up and was just focused.”
Fisher Stevens said:
“She was great. She came in and did her job. She was just one of the regular people.”
Ben Stiller said:
“Her personality is so wholesome, which is part of her appeal, but she’s beautiful too.”
“It was kind of traumatic for me (doing the nude scene in Along came Polly), but Jennifer was great. She was very supportive and looked straight ahead while holding my hand as we walked off down the beach together.”
“If you spend five minutes with Jennifer, you get that she’s funny, beautiful, charming, sweet - all of those things. The sense you get from watching her work is really who she is. It’s a great combination: a woman with a great sense of humor who also is attractive. She’s also normal while living a life where it’s not that easy to have a normal life. I give her credit for that, because it’s harder to do that with all the attention that’s paid to her and Brad (Pitt) as a couple and what they have to deal with. It’s crazy. It’s easy for people to lose it. Under the circumstances, she’s pretty grounded.”
“The first time we met was 1991 or 1992. We both had Fox shows. She was doing The Edge, which was a sketch comedy show, and I had “The Ben Stiller Show,” also a sketch comedy show. We met at one of those press tour things. Over the years we’d run into each other and for years we had the same manager.” - on how the met
“John had the idea for her to do it (playing the leading role). I was all for it. Not only does she have a good sense of humor, but also she’s funny. She understands how to act in a scene that’s funny and her timing is so good. She listens and is in the moment and makes the funny choices.”
“She’s the best. There’s no sweeter, warmer, funnier, more talented actress out there.”
“With Jen, you can’t go anywhere without 20 guys on motorcycles following.” [One day she cleverly rented a boat to take Stiller and friends up the Seine to a secret pier] “And these insane photographers are off their bikes, running to catch the boat, and are left screaming on the dock like something out of Les Misérables.”
“There’s something that radiates from her that is so warm and generous in a very real way. It just makes her more beautiful.”
“I’d say that Jennifer’s just, there’s so few… How do I say it? I don’t want to say that there are so few women who are good at comedy. That sounds like a really sexist thing to say, but she really is one of the few actresses that I know where she has such impeccable timing as a comedienne/ actress, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. She really listens and she has timing in terms of knowing. I don’t think that it comes out of a premeditated thing. It’s just in her bones. She knows when to say it and when to not say anything. She just takes things in and she listens in a way that’s very real too, I think. [She has] just incredible timing, which I think is a real gift.”
“She is funny, she is cute, she is sexy, she is… um, did I say funny, sexy cute and kinda perfect? Kinda perfect in every way. But I’m not telling you anything anyone doesn’t already know.”
“I knew that we both kind of enjoyed each other’s company and laugh together and have fun together. Jennifer is just a great person to hang out with and is [an] extremely giving, fun, good person.”
“In a movie like this, you’re only as good as the people you’re playing against. Because you have to react to them and kinda go through this whole journey. Jennifer is incredibly reactive ehm, and you know, she’s cute.”
John Stockwell (writer of Rockstar) said:
“Something about her seems like she’s just one of those people Hollywood types fly over on their way to L.A. She’s not cynical, not jaded - the sort of girl that you can’t imagine what she does with the three quarters of a million dollar she makes every week.”
Erwin Stoff (producer of Picture Perfect) said:
“We felt that Olympia [Dukakis] would provide a certain earthiness that would help ground the movie. We also thought that she would make a wonderful contrast with Jennifer.”
Collier Strong (her makeup artist) said:
“When she comes in before shoots, she looks amazing. There’s nothing scary about her in the morning. Her favoured look has long been simple and natural. Even if her make-up looks dramatic, it always leans to the natural side. I want her eyes to really standout because they’re so gorgeous.”
Mena Suvari said:
“She’s a really wonderful, giving, down-to-earth person. She was so professional. It was such a pleasure working with her. I admire Jennifer for who she is and how she handles her life. She never brought her private life to the set. You would never have know what she was dealing with unless you’d read or heard it somewhere else.”
“She’s so sweet and beautiful. It was an honor to play her sister. She was very friendly.”
“Well we’re both Greek, which is a shoe-in right there. But you know when we met, it just was really easy. We ended up sharing stories about our past, our childhood and our upbringing, that it just kind of happened. I mean, she has such a warm, down to earth, easygoing personality that you can’t help but open yourself up to her.”
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Aisha Taylor said:
“Jennifer Aniston always looks sensational and streamlined and put together. Things never seem fussy or uncomfortable.”
Chris Taylor (hockey player) said:
“Jennifer Aniston, and I am absolutely sure she would do it!” - when asked which actress should play his love interest in a movie
Marlo Thomas (Mrs. Sandra Green on Friends) said:
“Jennifer was adorable, so supportive, and so much fun. I really enjoyed it and we got to be good friends. Jennifer was a big fan of That Girl, in fact, she told me that Ross was her Donald.”
James Michael Tyler (Gunther on Friends) said:
“It was a very fitting closure for Gunther’s story line. Jennifer Aniston made it both very easy and very difficult at the same time. Our scene went beyond acting-the emotion was real-it was a moment I will never forget.”
“[Drooling over Rachel] was not very difficult to do as an actor. She’s like a sister to me. She’s just a wonderful person, great heart, wonderful actress and beautiful.”
Vince Vaughn said:
“I think Jennifer is an awesome actress and an awesome person, but we’re not a couple. We met those times because I wanted her to be part of the film. We were talking business. I’m one of the producers on the film and I wanted Jennifer to be my co-star.”
“Honestly, Jennifer and I don’t think of those things as much as other people. It’s the media that draws those kind of parallels.” - on not wanting to change the title of the movie The Break Up
“She’s awesome … . I always thought of her when we were developing the movie. She has just a wonderful warmth and likeability about her.”
“You know, we’re just really good friends. Er… er… er… I think she’s wonderful. And I loved working with her. And I think anyone being around her would really kind of like … feel like they’re friends with Jen. And she does have that quality. But er… I had a blast doing the movie with her, I think she’s great.” - when asked if they’re dating
“Jennifer is just awesome. Both of us just ignore all the stuff because we’re working on a script we love. She’s just a great actress and really, really funny.”
“She’s great. She’s funny. Jennifer gets to be really funny. She is really funny and she’s also a good actor.”
“She has an her extreme emotional intelligence. People could abuse that. But she chooses to use her gifts to make people feel good. She chooses to be kind.”
“The thing with Jen is, she’s so easy to feel drawn to. She’s so genuine and warm, and she has a lightness, a classy ease about it all. You can see why people are so enamored. It’s like she’s stuffed with Elvis dust. Little kids see her and they don’t know she’s famous, and they just gravitate to her, they hang on her.”
“Jennifer’s great. She’s one of my favorite people. And she’s-she’s easy to… she’s-she’s just really smart and funny and easy to be with. Very considerate. And she’s just great.”
“I started thinking of her when I was writing because she’s not only a great actress, but she also has a quality that’s very likable, very warm and appealing. There’s a genuineness to Jen. And she’s also really funny.”
“It made my acting easier that day (when Jennifer did a nude scene) — she just looks great. That was everyone’s favorite day on the set!”
“She has a great quality, you’re just drawn to her. There was no other option.”
“I just responded to her nature. She’s very funny and bright — it just flowed.”
“Jen’s always great…you know Jennifer. You won’t find anyone more classy, smart or more genuine than Jennifer is. She’s just truly just a gracious, good-hearted, bright person. You know, as far as my personal life, I have always just chosen to kind of keep something to myself and not discuss that, that’s not really my thing. But I love talking about her as an actress.”
“She gives such a great performance in this, in those scenes that she does when it turns dramatic. They are simple and really truthful, not overdone, not overacting. Just really raw and honest.”
“She is like Elvis, people love Jennifer and what you see is what you get; she is a genuine article and very warm, very aware and people respond really well to Jen.”
“She was the only actor that I had in mind, because she’s so good with comedy and she’s also a very good actor and she also has a quality to her that just inherently she’s very likeable. There’s a warmth to Jennifer. These characters are both very flawed, so it’s important to have that.
And when we started the rehearsal process right away, I really was impressed with her acting, her timing, with all of that. Jennifer is really the heart of the movie, like Owen is the heart of the movie in Crashers.
If she isn’t as good of a straight man, as it would be, in this movie, and then also able to be comedic if it calls for it, but never lose that sense of being real and being a real person taking this journey, the whole movie would falter, so she was really instrumental. And yes, I did like her right off the back as a person as well. I think she’s terrific.”
“What do I like about Jennifer? I like everything about Jennifer. I think she’s great.”
“She was really the only actress that I thought of for the part because of her comedic acting ability and her likability. That stuff (in the tabloids) transpired as we went on but I felt that ultimately you do your best to make a great movie and I can’t really handicap the other stuff, how it will affect, how it won’t affect, is it good, is it bad.
I know that we had a piece of material that we believed in, that we worked really hard on and that’s really all you have control over.”
“It’s true that she was the only actress I had in mind. When we rehearsed, I was impressed with her acting and timing. It was also a good role. Unfortunately, a lot of times women in romantic comedies are stuck sort of rolling their eyes at what the guy does. I wanted her to be really funny on screen, too. Jennifer is the heart of this movie.”
“She has a dignity and a warmth and a kindness to her, that I think comes across in her performance. You have this very flawed character on a journey, I thought it was important to have someone who you’d think, ‘Oh, I like her.’ And I think she has a goodness to her.”
“I think the one thing to know is that Jennifer is one of the brightest, most emotionally intelligent people I’ve ever met, and I think whatever experience she has only betters her. She’s a very warm, genuine, happy, great person and I don’t think there’s anything to worry about her being able to… she’ll always have an optimism and a brightness about life. I think it’s just innate to who she is.”
“She’s the most sincere woman I know. She doesn’t lie, she has a good heart.”
“Hey, [Jennifer and Joey Lauren Adams] are both great actresses, and I knew they’d be great together. Which, you know, they were.”
“She’s one of the funniest and most genuine people I know.”
“Just want to say thank you very much to my co-star Jennifer Aniston, one of the funniest and most genuine people I know. She’s the best.” - People’s Choice Awards speech
Donatella Versace said:
“She really knows how to choose clothes that suit her. Sleek, simple, romantic. She follows her own instincts.”
Mark Wahlberg said:
“She’s an amazing actress. She’s everything I wish I could have - that kind of person.”
Lisa Ann Walter (Jennifer’s sister in Bruce Almighty) said:
“She’s one of us. She’s just the nicest chick. You just want to go, ‘You’re not really a big, huge star.’”
Harvey Weinstein said:
“This is not Rachel from Friends. She challenged herself to be more uninhibited than she’s ever been onscreen. This role is very sexual.”
“I’ve known Jennifer personally for 10 years. When I saw how great she was in [2002's] The Good Girl, I wanted to give her the opportunity to stretch. I think this role puts her in the rank of actresses like Charlize and Gwyneth and Reneé and Nicole.”
“Clive and Jennifer had fantastic chemistry [in Derailed].”
Gucci Westman (make up artist) said:
“She’s one of my favourite people to work with, incredibly cool and beautiful. She’s a girl that everyone falls in love with - she just has this really charismatic charming way about her.”
Mike White said:
“She was the coolest. She was less high-maintenance than I was.”
“I remember sitting there and [Jennifer and Jake Gyllenhaal] were talking so softly. There’s something really hypnotic about the way they were delivering the lines. It put me in a real weird trance. I really like the quality of both their voices.”
“What’s great about Jennifer is that she uh, …she really reins her character in so she’s much more saner than she could have been. She’s definitely saner than she’s on the page. And I think it adds to a more complex character.”
“‘She’s so professional’, is an understatement. She’s such a trooper. Always giving her energy on screen and off.”
“I came up with the idea of casting Jen. I thought it would be fresh. Who wouldn’t want to see America’s sweetheart get blackmailed for sex and try to institutionalise her boyfriend and cheat on her husband? I just wasn’t sure she’d respond to the material.”
Carrie Wiatt (former nutritionist) said:
“She walked into my office, so sweet, so full of energy. And she just wanted to lose a little bit of weight. She looked really healthy and so we didn’t take that much off. I know there’s been some reports about thirty pounds… it hasn’t, it was not thirty pounds.”
Oprah Winfrey said:
“I was delighted to fin after talking with Jennifer Aniston that she’s as friendly and fun as we all imagine her to be. She tells her own truth about loving Brad Pitt and him loving her. Definitely sounds like the real thing to me.”
Reese Witherspoon (Jill on Friends) said:
“Friends was great. I know Jennifer socially and she was so nice and supportive. The whole cast was very accommodating… They have asked me to come back but I don’t now if they can work it out and have the show on. I will have to wait and see. I really hope so.”
“I love Jen, and I’m very happy she won an award. I think she really deserved it. After all, she’s my sister, even if just on tv. It feels as if we were really sisters.”