Top 100 Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
#1. Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
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#2. I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
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#3. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.
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#4. People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.
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#5. The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.
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#6. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
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#7. I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.
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#8. The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
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#9. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
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#10. 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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#11. It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
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#12. I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
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#13. Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.
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#14. The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.
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#15. 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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#16. I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
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#17. If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
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#18. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
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#19. The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
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#20. 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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#21. Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
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#22. I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.
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#23. By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.
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#24. 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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#25. And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
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#26. I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.
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#27. Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
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#28. I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.
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#29. The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.
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#30. I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.
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#31. I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
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#32. So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.
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#33. I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
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#34. I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
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#38. 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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#39. We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.
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#40. I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
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#42. The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.
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#43. People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.
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#44. Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.
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#45. Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.
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#46. 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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#47. Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.
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#48. Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
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#49. 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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#51. 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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#52. I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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#53. 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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#54. I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
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#55. I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.
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#56. 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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#57. It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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#58. 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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#59. I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.
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#60. 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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#61. It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
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#62. I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
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#63. I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.
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#68. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.
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#69. 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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#70. I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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#71. I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
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#72. [Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween ... Don't Give Up on Me.
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#73. 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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#74. My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
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#75. 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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#76. My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.
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#77. 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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#78. I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.
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#79. 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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#80. Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
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#81. 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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#82. I'm going to look the way God intends me to look ... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.
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#83. Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great
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#84. I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.
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#88. I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
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#89. I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
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#91. The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
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#93. The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?
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#94. My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that's exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other.
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#95. 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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#97. 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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#98. If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
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#100. 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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