Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
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The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.
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I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.
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I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
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You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.
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The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.
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I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
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Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.
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Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great.
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My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
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I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.
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I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.
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I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
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Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
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It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
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I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
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I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.
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The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?
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People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.
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I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
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I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.
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It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
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And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.