Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Kim Basinger - Page 2

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

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

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.

A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

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

I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. 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.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.

I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

I know that my in-box will be so full the day that I leave the planet. So you try to stay interested in life and bring some kind of comfort and pleasure to others on this planet as you're going through this journey.

My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.