Top 25 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 was doing publicity for ‘The Getaway’; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I’ve been to fights, and I’ve seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

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

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 love to be nervous before a scene.

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

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

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.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

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

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

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.