Kim Basinger
I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.Collection: Trust
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.
It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.
I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.
There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.
I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.
I'm a very determined person.
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
I love to be nervous before a scene.
I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.
I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.
I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.
In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.
The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.
My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.
I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.
I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.
Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.
If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.Collection: Thinking
When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.Collection: Regret
We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.Collection: Silence
I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.Collection: Longevity
I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.Collection: Care
I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.Collection: Want
I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.Collection: Ambition
You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.Collection: Journey
You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.Collection: Doing Nothing
When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.Collection: Thinking
I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.Collection: Want
The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.Collection: Dream
You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.Collection: Ocean
You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.Collection: School
I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.Collection: Want
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desireCollection: Clever
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.Collection: Daughter
I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.Collection: School
I wouldn't trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I'm the luckiest girl in the world as far as I'm concerned.Collection: Girl