Top 30 Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.

I was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, ‘Wow, this was awesome!’

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you’re coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I’m not a prophet. I’m not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I’m a tidy, neat person. But I’m not a maniac.

I’ve been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

I’m a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can’t do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that’s all a direct result of getting sober.

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I’m going to do.

The parameters are such that I don’t get offered a lot of work. I’m sure most directors hear my list of don’ts and say forget it.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

I love performing and pretending – it’s very easy for me.

I’ve had a little plastic surgery. I’ve had a little lipo. I’ve had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that’s part of society.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I’m uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

I wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

I talk too much.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

I’m going to look the way God intends me to look… with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

I’m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I’m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.