Christine Baranski Quotes

#1. I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

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#2. Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

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#3. Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

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#4. It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

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#5. The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

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#6. Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

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#7. You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

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#8. I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

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#9. Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

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#10. Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

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#11. I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.

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#12. I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

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#13. I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

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#14. It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

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#15. A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

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#16. You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

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#17. Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

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#18. You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

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#19. I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

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#20. The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

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#21. Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

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#22. I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

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#23. I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

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#24. You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

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#25. I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

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#26. It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

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#27. Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

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#28. Why put it on if you're not going to strut?

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#29. Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

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#30. In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

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#31. Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

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#32. It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.

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#33. If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

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#34. I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

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