Top 61 Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

#1. Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

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#2. The value of a good education has never left me.

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#3. I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

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#4. I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all been a big sham.

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#5. When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

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#6. I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

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#7. There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

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#8. If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

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#9. I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker ... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

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#10. I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

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#11. I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

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#12. I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

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#13. I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!

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#14. My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.

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#15. I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

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#16. There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

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#17. Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

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#18. I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

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#19. You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

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#20. This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

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#21. Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

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#22. Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world ... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

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#23. For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

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#24. I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.

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#25. Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

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#26. Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

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#27. I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.

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#28. Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

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#29. I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

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#30. I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

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#31. I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

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#32. When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

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#33. My walk is consistently made fun of.

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#34. It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

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#35. I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

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#36. People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

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#37. Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

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#38. I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

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#39. It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

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#40. I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

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#41. Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

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#42. My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

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#43. The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

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#44. I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

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#45. I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

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#46. I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

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#47. And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

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#48. My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

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#49. I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

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#50. You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

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#51. I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

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#52. First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

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#53. I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

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#54. Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

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#55. Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

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#56. I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

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#57. I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

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#58. You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

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#59. Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

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#60. When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

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#61. I'm good at disguising my feelings.

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