Words matter. These are the best Kim Basinger Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.
I don’t live by a lot of society’s rules; I can’t pattern myself after the herd.
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.
I’m not a real social person – I’m shy – and a lot of the business is just social.
I love to be nervous before a scene.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
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.
I’m a very determined person.
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.
I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
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.
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.
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
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.
I work in a strange business, and ‘trust’ is a word that’s not even in the vocabulary.
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.
If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I’m living proof that they do come true.
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’ve just always believed you can get anything you want in this life – anything you want.
Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.
