Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

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 !

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

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.

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.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

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.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!

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.

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.

The value of a good education has never left me.

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.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

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.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

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.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

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.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.