Kim Basinger Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.

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.

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

I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

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

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.

You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

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

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

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.

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.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

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

A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

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 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.

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

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

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

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'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

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.

If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

I'm a very determined person.

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

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