Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Kim Basinger

I love to be nervous before a scene.

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.

I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.

Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

I'm a very determined person.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I'm all for anybody having a party who wants that. The funny thing about me and birthdays or any kind of celebration where it brings attention to you in that way is that it's never been anything that I've thoroughly enjoyed - even as a little kid.

I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

I wouldn't trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I'm the luckiest girl in the world as far as I'm concerned.

I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.