Courteney Cox.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
Courteney Coxsays with age, comes confidence — and a lot of ambition.
“I think you value your time and also, you want to do everything you can,” Cox,who turns 60in June, explained. “At least, that’s the way I feel. The fear that I don’t have anymore is if I don’t want to do something, I can ask myself an honest question: ‘Do I want to do this? Or am I doing it for someone else?’ ”
Cox went on to explain that she doesn’t worry anymore about saying no.
Courteney Cox photographed in Los Angeles on April 10, 2022.Amy Sussman/Getty
Amy Sussman/Getty
“I think later in life, which is where I am now, if I don’t want to do it, I don’t want to,” theShining Valestar said. “I’m not mean or short, I just say, ‘I can’t make it. But thank you and please invite me again.’ Because you never know. Oh my God, please invite me always!”
As Cox explained, “We all spend a lot of time going, ‘God, if I don’t go to that, will they ever invite me again? And was it the best time in the whole world? And I’m not there, and then I don’t get to experience that? But I don’t really want to go. But….' God, the battle and then not wanting to hurt someone.”
But she didn’t always have this level of confidence, Cox said, sharing that even when she starred as a member of thecastof the global hitFriends, she suffered from insecurity andimposter syndrome.
“There was a time when I was onFriendsand I didn’t have enough confidence to go after things that I could have or should have,” said Cox, who was 30 when the show premiered in 1994.
“So maybe I was being more of an imposter back then,” she shared.
Courteney Cox in 1994 on the set of ‘Friends’.Reisig & Taylor/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Reisig & Taylor/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
When Ogunnaike asked her, “How do you see or define ambition at this stage in your life, in your career?" Cox replied that she’s trying to do more — not less.
“I think that I have so many things that I want to be better at,” Cox noted in her response. “My ambition is realizing that you can. I do so much. I play the piano. I play tennis. I love cooking. That was something I learned to do during lockdown. Having this business, directing, acting, I think that I just am more ambitious because I care more, so, I am less lazy.”
Cox continued, “If I’m not busy, that’s when I get lazy. If I’m not busy, then I get nothing done. But you give me a million things to do and I’ll do ‘em all. So, I just think as I get older, I realize why not do all of it and try really hard.”
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