Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
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I respect so much the work that so many women do but that's just not what I do. I have a job where I advertise yogurt that makes you poop and that people love and people tell me about their bowel movements every day.
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Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.
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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 don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
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The truth is James Cameron can do every other job. I'm talking about every single department, from art direction to props to wardrobe to cameras, he knows more than everyone doing the job. But he can't act. And therefore he is in thrall of actors.
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My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought.
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I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.
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I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac.
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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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You can't live a truthful life without regret.
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I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.
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For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
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Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.
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If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.
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I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
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I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
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I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.
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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!
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It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.