Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
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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 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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When I did "Sesame Street" (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo was special, and I said that the only way I would do Sesame Street was with Elmo. Kevin Clash, the young man who did the voice for him, was a very sweet ...
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I can play rhythm guitar . I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becoming the commodity that then made him the omnipotent King of the Pop-Goes-The-Weasel-Jacko-In-The-Neverland-Box that destroyed him. Few children, put into the intense focus of their precious youth being marketed for other's pleasure, come out unscathed and with any sense of mental balance.
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My life is so filled, so if I accept acting work now, it means I have to let somebody else do the job I want to do, which is raise my children. It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.
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I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
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I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.
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All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
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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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My husband and I have a vacation home in the same place my parents went to all my life, and I'm grateful for that.
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I don't expect to hear from him on my birthday or Christmas. I see him when I see him. He's like a ghost - on her father, Tony Curtis.
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I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
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I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
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Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from 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.
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I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
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If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
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Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
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But marriage is not easy. You have to be extremely comfortable with who you are and you have to establish perimeters for yourself.
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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 did what anybody would do if they were going to dance around in a g-string and bra in front of 50 men for four days...I didn't eat very much for a month.
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I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
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I'm not an actor anymore. I really don't imagine I'll do that again. I'm just focused on my family and just can't imagine anything that's going to pull me away from them right now.
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It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
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Holiday came on the radio the other day and I remember where I was the first time I heard it: in West L.A. on my way to aerobics class. (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).
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I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
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People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair.
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My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
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As much as I have lived off my mother and her unbelievably famous body for all these years, I'm also my grandmother's granddaughter.
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Despite all his success, Eddie Murphy acts like he's 22 years old. His life is cars and girls, girls and cars. More cars. More girls.
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We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.
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You know you have a problem long before you seek a solution to it. You think you can master it yourself.
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Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
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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 deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
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Believe me, none of it works - on cosmetic surgery.
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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
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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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Because I didn't really have a relationship with him, he couldn't let me down. I just happened to be one of the last people who hadn't been disappointed too many times. For years, I didn't know who Tony Curtis was as much as other people told me who he was.
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I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
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If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
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My life is so filled that for me to accept acting work now means that I have to basically let somebody else do the job that I want to do, which is raise my children. It's not that I'm retired, it's just that I no longer accept acting work.
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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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He was absolutely right, ... I have taken that to heart.
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I'm Laurie Strode's guardian angel.
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So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
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It's part of my job, but it's one thing if you take a picture of me head to toe, it's another thing when they focus in on your nose or something and that's all they're shooting because they're doing a story about nose jobs. Then you go, 'why did I allow that to be a part of my life?'
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I just finished a biography of Marie Antoinette. I was weeping as I turned the last few pages. It was just a killer.
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With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.
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In some circles, my Caesar salad is more famous than my body.
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I'm the mommy in my house, and I want to be the mommy in my house. My not being in the house leaves a really gaping hole.
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I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
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I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
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