Best 93 quotes of Jamie Lee Curtis on MyQuotes

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

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.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

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.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

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

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.

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

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

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'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

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

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

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

I respect so much the work that so many women do, but that's just not what I do. I have a job where I advertise yogurt that makes you poop, and people love it and tell me about their bowel movements, every day.

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.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

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

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

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

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.