Kim Basinger Quotes

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I’m living proof that they do come true.

I’ve just always believed you can get anything you want in this life – anything you want.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

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.

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

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

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.

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

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.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

I’m all for anybody having a party who wants that. The funny thing about me and birthdays or any kind of celebration where it brings attention to you in that way is that it’s never been anything that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed – even as a little kid.

I’m a very determined businesswoman… I’ve got lots of things to do, and I don’t have time to be classified as difficult, and I don’t have time.

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.

I’m a very determined person.

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

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

I’m extremely competitive with myself. But I’m not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I’ve never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

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.

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.

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 doing publicity for ‘The Getaway’; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

With every project I’ve ever done, I’ve always treated it like I’m still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

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

I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

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

I don’t live by a lot of society’s rules; I can’t pattern myself after the herd.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

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

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

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

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

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.

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.

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go ‘God! Movie stars! Wow!’ And I’m in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I’m just a little kid going to these movies, and I don’t ever want to change.