Jamie Lee Curtis famous quotes

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Age #Transition #Use

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Life #Two #Needs

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Inspirational #People #Want

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

#Family #Way #Firsts

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

#Why Not #Firm

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Two #Addiction #Abuse

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mom #Helpful #My Mom

...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Art #Helping Others #Voice

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Inspirational #Teenager #Teens

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Inspirational #Teenager #Watches

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Children #Adoption #Looks

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

#Thinking #Who I Am #Today

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Successful #Thinking #Sober

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Years #Married #Happily Married

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

#Thinking #Missing #World

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Cosmetics #Firsts #Procedures

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Acting #Accepting #Retired

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Real #Thinking #People

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Want #Way #Taking Pictures

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Crazy #Thinking #Self

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?
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Reading #Blow #Years

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Children #People #Looks

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mother #Women #Media

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Inspirational #Book #Judging

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Exercise #Body #Pilates

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

#Teacher #Degrees #Prophet

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#People #Age #Dresses

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

#Book #Actors

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Addiction #Alcoholics #Addict

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

#Home #Tolls #Fame

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Book #Careers #Path

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Guitar #Play #Rhythm

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Anniversary #Mother #Years

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Happiness #Moving #Acceptance

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Botox #Littles #Plastic

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mother #People #Age

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#People #Being Me #Pretending

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

#Hollywood #My Family #Movie Business

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Beautiful #Thinking #Want

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#School #High School #Looks

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

#Easy #Pretending #Performing

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

#Trying #Normal #Watches

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

#Girl #Littles #Used

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

#Thinking #Self #Getting Older

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

#Cute #Thinking #Hair

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

#Littles #Scandal #Parody

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Friendship #Mom #Daughter

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

#Children #Giving Up #Halloween

My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Children #Memories #Holiday

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

#Children #Life Is #My Family

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Beautiful #Attention #Appearance

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

#Dream #House #Normal

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Actresses #Driven

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Fashion #Boring #Shows

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

#Parent #Doe #Being A Parent

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Two #Hair #Color

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Believe #Life Is Hard #Challenges

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

#Money #Sleep #Cost

Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mean #Opposites #Rocks

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Kids #Alcohol #Drug

I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Inspirational #Motivational #Focus

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

#Age #Bigs #Grotesque

~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.~
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mom #Regret #Children

Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Mother #Fall #Heart

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Daughter #Mother #Doors

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

#Recovery #Thinking #Sober

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Regret #Thinking #Well Known

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Thinking #Order #Feelings

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Thinking #Years #Perfect

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Challenges #Want #Way

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Recovery #Acceptance #Life Is

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Children #Mind #Want

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Children #Self Esteem #Book

My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Beautiful #Daughter #Mother

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Philosophy #School #Writing