Kim Basinger Quotes

I love to be nervous before a scene.

Kim Basinger

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Writing
  • Taken
  • Capacity

• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Different
  • Space
  • Purpose

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Cricket

• I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Never
  • Person
  • Become

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Man
  • Personality
  • Handsome

• People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
  • Wisdom

• There were many times that I felt like a fish out of water, times that I really said to myself, 'do I even fit in'.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Water

• The three-toed tree-toadSings his sweet odeTo the moon;The funny bunnyAnd his honeyTrip in tune.

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • Funny
  • Sweet
  • Moon

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Serious

• No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Mercy

• I love the word 'faggot,' because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing! We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad! We went to the prom with you!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • History
  • Guy
  • Community

• I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• I was probably born with some designing abilities.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Design
  • Ability

• If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Fall
  • Universe
  • Dog

• Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

  

  Nguyen Quyen
  • Cancer
  • Surgery
  • Nerves

• I love to be nervous before a scene.

  

  Kim Basinger