Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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I love people and I love to be around people.
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Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!
