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Judy Greer may have only appeared in a handful of episodes of Arrested Development — but she claims one of the show’s most memorable lines.
While stepping out to the Los Angeles premiere of her new Apple TV+ series Stick on May 29, the actress, 49, revealed to PEOPLE that, of all her acting roles, fans come up to her and quote her Arrested Development character Kitty Sanchez’s hilarious “Say goodbye to these” quip the most.
Kitty was the personal assistant and mistress of family patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor), who was sent to prison for fraud. While he’s incarcerated, George’s son Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), who has reluctantly taken over the running of his father’s company, is forced to keep Kitty on the payroll to prevent her from revealing damning information about George to the SEC.
Kitty, who got breast implants that were paid for by George, has a penchant for flashing people, especially Michael, while saying her now-iconic line.
“I love that one,” Greer tells PEOPLE. “And usually I get flashed when they say it, so that’s always a bonus, too.”
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Asked if it’s both men and women who flash her, the actress says, “Mostly men. Yeah. But it’s kind of a pretend flashing and I’m like, ‘Come on, show me the real thing.’ ”
Greer played Kitty in 13 episodes across the show’s five seasons, which aired from 2003 to 2006 on Fox and then from 2013 to 2019 on Netflix.
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The Jurassic World star also spoke to PEOPLE about her upcoming 50th birthday on July 20 and how she plans to celebrate the milestone.
“I’m taking a trip with my family. A city trip,” she reveals.
As for how she feels about turning 50, Greer says she hasn’t “given it too much thought” yet.
“I guess I’m kind of boring. I don’t know. Everything in my life is really nice and really good and I’m really happy, so I kind of just don’t want to make any changes,” she explains.
Greer previously opened up to PEOPLE in 2022 about being an actress in her 40s and how she’s embracing this chapter in her career as “the consciousness is shifting.”
“When I first started acting, I felt like youth was everything and I was very aware of that. And now I think that the zeitgeist, the consciousness, is shifting and we’re all sort of feeling differently about body image. We’re feeling differently about aging. We’re dipping our toe into becoming more expansive with our ideas about what is beautiful and what is worthy,” she said at the time.
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“I feel very lucky to be an actress in my 40s right now because there are great roles for us. There are great directors and writers out there,” she continued. “And so I think that we’re just getting served better material than those women were when I was in my 20s … There’s a long way to go. Please don’t get me wrong, but it’s a start and I’ll take it.”
Greer’s latest project, Stick, sees her starring alongside Owen Wilson, Marc Maron and Timothy Olyphant. The show follows ex-pro golfer Pryce Cahill (Wilson), whose “career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago,” according to an official synopsis.
After his marriage to wife Amber-Linn (Greer) ends and he loses his job at a sporting goods store, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi [Peter Dager],” stepping in as the teen’s coach.
The first three episodes of Stick premiere Wednesday, June 4, on Apple TV+, followed by new episodes weekly through July 23.