Michelle Pfeiffer
I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.Collection: Being Yourself
I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.Collection: Cycling
If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.Collection: Crazy
You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Hate
Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.Collection: Hatred
You can have it all, but you can't do it all.Collection: Success
Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.Collection: Dark
It's fun to kick ass and show that other dark side of yourself as well.Collection: Fun
I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.Collection: School
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.Collection: Reality
One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.Collection: Thinking
Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Jobs
There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.Collection: Feelings
I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.Collection: Stars
I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.Collection: Jobs
Acting is kind of brutal.Collection: Acting
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.Collection: Girl
When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Believe
I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.Collection: Waiting
What's interesting is, there's always a lot of talk to young people about finding their passion, following their passion. But I remember reading somewhere that a lot of people don't have a passion. And there's this pressure to have one. It's perfectly fine not to have one.Collection: Reading
One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.Collection: Nice
I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.Collection: Home
I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.Collection: Men
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.Collection: Father
People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!Collection: Cutting
When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.Collection: Dream
Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."Collection: Lasts
Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.Collection: Thinking
If I do a move I don't like, I don't want to get so upset with myself.Collection: Moving
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.Collection: Men
I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.Collection: Acting
It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !Collection: Sleep
I've always had a very extreme personality, which gets me into major trouble, I'm always all or nothing, and I don't know the world "balance." I'm desperately trying to learn it because I think as you get older it becomes very important.Collection: Thinking
I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity.Collection: Publicity
You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.Collection: Play
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.Collection: Kids
I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.Collection: Taken
Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.Collection: Doe
I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.Collection: Morning
Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Eye
You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.Collection: Attitude
I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.Collection: Thinking
I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.Collection: Actors
I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.Collection: Hollywood
I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.Collection: People