Christine Lahti Quotes

#1. Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

Christine Lahti

#2. Competition is very good ... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Christine Lahti

#3. I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christine Lahti

#4. Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

Christine Lahti

#5. Stop being self-conscious when you write.
You are the expert about the world you are creating,
no one else. So be bold and write on.

Nirav Sanchaniya

#6. When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Christine Lahti

#7. I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

Christine Lahti

#8. You build me up and turn me inside out. I've never felt so defenseless and yet ... so daring at the same time.

Pam Godwin

#9. I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

Christine Lahti

#10. I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti

#11. Dreams and ambitions are great, but when we link faith to action through honor, we unlock the gifts God has put into our lives.

Russell Evans

#12. Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

Christine Lahti

#13. I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Christine Lahti

#14. It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period.

Christine Lahti

#15. I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

Christine Lahti

#16. I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Christine Lahti

#17. I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Christine Lahti

#18. And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

Christine Lahti

#19. The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

Gabe Newell

#20. When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

Christine Lahti

#21. After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

Christine Lahti

#22. Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Christine Lahti

#23. I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

Christine Lahti

#24. I am an actress and acting is my passion ... period!

Christine Lahti

#25. That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.

Lauren Oliver

#26. My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

Christine Lahti

#27. Quinn talked with her entire body: arms, eyes, shoulders, mouth. She was performance art, so alive that sometimes he argued with her just so he could watch her flush and gesture.

Jennifer Crusie

#28. A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

Christine Lahti

#29. I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Christine Lahti

#30. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

Eugene H. Peterson

#31. Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job ... and you better do it well!

Christine Lahti

#32. The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Christine Lahti