Best 25 quotes of Christine Baranski on MyQuotes

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic

If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.

I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?