Kim Basinger Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.