Top 35 Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

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

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.

Now all of a sudden I’m so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.

I’m age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I’m a big believer in people should act their age.

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

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

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

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

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

I talk too much.

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 wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn’t.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

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

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

I’ve etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It’s been an evolution.

I never represented glam. That’s the thing, you’ll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I’m uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that’s part of society.

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.

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

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

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

My marriage? Up to now everything’s okay. But it’s a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. It’s all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we’ve emotionally evolved.

I’m going to look the way God intends me to look… with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I’m going to do.

The parameters are such that I don’t get offered a lot of work. I’m sure most directors hear my list of don’ts and say forget it.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

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

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.