Michelle Pfeiffer famous quotes

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Cycling #Relax #Together

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Acting #Roles

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Hate #Two #Interesting

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Dark #Thinking #Perspective

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Funny #Husband #Kids

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Laughing #People #Nests

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Personality #Dimes #Demand

The value of a good education has never left me.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Good Education #Values

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Beautiful #Boring #Standing

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Believe #Choices #Secret

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Dream #Thinking #Knowing

I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Let It Go #Lines #Able

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Years #Vulnerable

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Different #Human Nature #Vulnerable

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Strong #Thinking #Tunnels

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Girl #Class #Attractive

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Ducks #Tilt #Noses

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Kids #School #Long

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Stupid #Interviews #Watches

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Moving #Careers #Orange

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #People #Enjoy Life

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Children #Real #Kids

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Secret #Narcissism

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Roots #Issues

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Appreciate #Giving #Important

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Too Much #Pressure

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Jeans #Uniforms #Pressure

I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Lucky #Feels

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Dog #Looks #Feels

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Giving #Perspective

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Two #People #Way

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Challenges #Acting #Way

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Ideas #People #Laughing

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Success

You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Team #Exercise #People

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #People #Understanding

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Kids #Trying #Conservative

I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Cute #Husband #Integrity

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Kids #Thinking

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Home #Class #Landscape

I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Mean #Focus #Acting

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #Actresses #Goodness

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Successful #Thinking #Mad

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Hands #Parent #Tolls

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Choices #May #Stills

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Hatred #Cradle #Humiliate

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#People

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Kids #Sheep #Black

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Roles

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Thinking #People #Bigs

I'm good at disguising my feelings.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Feelings

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Giving Up #Loss #Sides

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Believe #Men #Getting Older

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Sleep #Exercise #Simple

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Being Yourself #Focus #Flaws

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Special #Shock #Breasts

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Movie #Thinking #Actors

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Taurus #Bones

My walk is consistently made fun of.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Fun #Made #Walks

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Way #Certain #Paparazzi

I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Stars #Mean #Black And White