Christine Baranski Quotes

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

Why put it on if you're not going to strut?

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct

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.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

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 do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

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.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.