Christine Baranski famous quotes

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
-- Christine Baranski

#Trying #Energy #Negative

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.
-- Christine Baranski

#Daughter #Mother #Children

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.
-- Christine Baranski

#Sexy #Thinking

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity
-- Christine Baranski

#Men #Humanity #Lovely

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct
-- Christine Baranski

#Sound #Difficult

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do
-- Christine Baranski

#Thinking #People #Curse

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place
-- Christine Baranski

#Depressing #New York

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
-- Christine Baranski

#Ability

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
-- Christine Baranski

#Jobs #Sleep #Needs

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
-- Christine Baranski

#Mom #Nice #Wife

Why put it on if you're not going to strut?
-- Christine Baranski

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
-- Christine Baranski

#Lunch #Drink #Martini

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
-- Christine Baranski

#Errors #Wire #Acting

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
-- Christine Baranski

#Culture #Commodity

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
-- Christine Baranski

#Actresses

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
-- Christine Baranski

#Arabia #Lawrence Of Arabia #Ultimate

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me
-- Christine Baranski

#Doors #Careers #Roles

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house
-- Christine Baranski

#Choices #House #Television

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
-- Christine Baranski

#Scholarship

I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
-- Christine Baranski

#Crazy #Thinking #People

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
-- Christine Baranski

#Cameras #Faces #Made

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
-- Christine Baranski

#Film #Enjoy

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
-- Christine Baranski

#Trying #Want #Should

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
-- Christine Baranski

#Mother #Children #Profound

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
-- Christine Baranski

#Preference #Mediums

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
-- Christine Baranski

#Drinking #Clothes #Adore

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
-- Christine Baranski

#Eye #Violence #Because I Can

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
-- Christine Baranski

#Wish

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves
-- Christine Baranski

#Moving #Actors #Lines

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic
-- Christine Baranski

#Creating #People #Hollywood

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely
-- Christine Baranski

#Focus #Energy #Hitting

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
-- Christine Baranski

#Actors #Wells