Kim Basinger Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

I love to be nervous before a scene.

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

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

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

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

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

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.