Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

The truth is James Cameron can do every other job. I'm talking about every single department, from art direction to props to wardrobe to cameras, he knows more than everyone doing the job. But he can't act. And therefore he is in thrall of actors.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that's exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

I had the best time I ever had on a Jim Cameron movie - True Lies, 1994. It was the single most freeing experience as an actor I've ever had. And, of course, in the midst of it there was this humungous circus that he conceived.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

I respect so much the work that so many women do, but that's just not what I do. I have a job where I advertise yogurt that makes you poop, and people love it and tell me about their bowel movements, every day.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.