Christine Lahti famous quotes

03-28-2025

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
-- Christine Lahti

#Winning #Smoking #Done
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
-- Christine Lahti

#Birthday #Fighting #Careers
Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!
-- Christine Lahti

#News #Actors #Reason
I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!
-- Christine Lahti

#Passion #Acting #Actresses
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
-- Christine Lahti

#College #Careers #Political
I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.
-- Christine Lahti

#Love #Age #Cameras
I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.
-- Christine Lahti

#Challenges
My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
-- Christine Lahti

#Heart #Class #Shapes
Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
-- Christine Lahti

#Jobs #Eye #Theatre
When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.
-- Christine Lahti

#Children #My Children
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
-- Christine Lahti

#Doe #Television #Offers
Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.
-- Christine Lahti

#Challenges #Actors #Faces
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
-- Christine Lahti

#Careers #Choices #Actresses
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
-- Christine Lahti

#Real #Starting Over #Acting
I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
-- Christine Lahti

#Land #Roles #Chance
A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.
-- Christine Lahti

#Swag #House #Pieces
I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
-- Christine Lahti

#Winning #Way #Determined
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
-- Christine Lahti

#Long #Competition #Healthy
I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
-- Christine Lahti

#Two #Important #Actors
I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
-- Christine Lahti

#Thinking #Different #Film
I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.
-- Christine Lahti

#Jobs
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.
-- Christine Lahti

#Thinking #Hollywood #Enough

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