Kim Basinger Quotes

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.

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.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. 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.

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

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.

I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

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.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

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.

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

I'm a very determined person.

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

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.

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.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

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.

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.

My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.