Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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• I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Best

• I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Enthusiasm
  • Group

• We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Black

• I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Career
  • Want
  • Beginning

• I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Job

• When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

  

  Alison Pill
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Different

• I am a firm believer in slavery.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Slavery

• I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Fashion

• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  

  Chuck Eddy
  • Band
  • Hair
  • Grunge

• I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • American
  • Pride

• I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Couple

• Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Cutting

• Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Truth

• There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Great
  • Die

• You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Action
  • Failure
  • Hesitate

• Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Important
  • Awareness

• Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Running
  • Wall

• There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

  

  William Gibson
  • Soul
  • Impossible
  • Events

• There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Why
  • Die

• Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Life
  • Read
  • Weak

• Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Cooks
  • Derivatives
  • Modern Women