Christine Lahti Quotes

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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