Kim Basinger famous quotes

05-20-2025

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
-- Kim Basinger

#Thinking #Giving #Suffering
A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.
-- Kim Basinger

#Done #Next #Actresses
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.
-- Kim Basinger

#Two #People #Intuition
I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.
-- Kim Basinger

#Film #Bigs
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire
-- Kim Basinger

#Clever #Writing #People
I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.
-- Kim Basinger

#Wish #Next #Film
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
-- Kim Basinger

#Daughter #Mother #Heart
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.
-- Kim Basinger

#Mother #Children #Compassion
I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.
-- Kim Basinger

#Want #Found #Force
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
-- Kim Basinger

#Boredom #Clarity
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
-- Kim Basinger

#Dancing #Soul #Littles
I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. 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.
-- Kim Basinger

#Girl #Blessed #Juice
I love to be nervous before a scene.
-- Kim Basinger

#Nervous #Scene
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
-- Kim Basinger

#Vocabulary #Strange
I'm a very determined person.
-- Kim Basinger

#Determined #Persons
I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
-- Kim Basinger

#Care #Difficult
That was the first time I knew I loved him.
-- Kim Basinger

#Friendship #Dog #Firsts
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
-- Kim Basinger

#Girl #Sex #Thinking
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.
-- Kim Basinger

#Actors #Remember #Nervous
I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social
-- Kim Basinger

#Real #Shy #Social
I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life.
-- Kim Basinger

#Want #Oscars #Mets
There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do
-- Kim Basinger

#Mother #Doubt #Becoming
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.
-- Kim Basinger

#Mother #Teacher #Children
Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.
-- Kim Basinger

#Design #Parent #Insecurity
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.
-- Kim Basinger

#Daughter #Mother #Priorities
When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
-- Kim Basinger

#Regret #I Regret
It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.
-- Kim Basinger

#Anxiety #Panic Attacks #Fields

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