Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
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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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We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
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Nowadays, when you make movies, you don't need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don't need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.
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You can't live a truthful life without regret.
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I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
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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 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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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'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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Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.
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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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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'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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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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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 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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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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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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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
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My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.