Kim Basinger Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm a very determined person.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

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.

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

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

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 was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

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

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

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

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

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

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.

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

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.

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.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

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

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

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