Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Christine Baranski
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Christine Baranski.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
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.
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.
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
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.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
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.
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.
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
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.
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
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.
You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
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
I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.
Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.
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
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house
In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.
I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves
We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?
I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.
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
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.
Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.
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
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct
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
Why put it on if you're not going to strut?
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