Melanie Griffith Quotes

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I would be really happy to be working and be able to do my craft.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.

I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy.

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.