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| After all the years I've been in Hollywood, I still don't know a lot of the directors and producers who are working today. And ever since I've been totally against carriage horses. I'd rather talk about that than about how I am perceived in ways that have not an iota of truth. As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat. Basically, my work in the last ten years has been for the protection of animals, and it has opened me up to every organized animal-rights group. Blake Edwards taught me something. He loves slapstick; I got to be crazy in his films... I got to fall down, get up, and he loves all that, and I knew that I could do that by early on. He was sort of my teacher. He let me do that. Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to. Eminem is very cool. This is a very intense ride and we had to go to some raw places, some very hard places with this script. It was hard. It was tough. I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes. I don't hold anything against marriage. Who knows what is up the road? 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 got to sing, and that is my truest love of all, that and writing. I have to get through all these tears about animals, though, so I can do something about it. Animals don't need your tears; they need your help. I just didn't want to waste my time, I wanted to have fun and didn't want to work with people with big egos again, if they don't check them at the door. I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York. I liked the fact that I didn't have to worry about being brought up for cheating, but it was kind of a pain to turn it into the Web site. I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage. I love to be nervous before a scene. 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 still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll. I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road. I think I'm very determined in things that I fight for in the work I do for animals and lately with my daughter. I think the first fashion show I ever went to in my life was when Armani flew me to Milan. And that was two years ago. I try not to be too judgmental of others, even though I would love to think that the definition of the word animal will change somehow before I leave this planet. I wanted to be a writer; I wanted to sing. 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 much different voice than I have been for myself. When I go there, I can be very strong. 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'm a very determined person. I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects. I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social. I'm prejudiced but I think no one can do this as well as Curtis Hanson can. I think he has his finger on the pulse of America and on people - not just America, on the world - and what people want to see or need or whatever. He went into those waters and I'm glad he took me with him. I've had a lot of things written about me, both positive and negative. I've learned about journalists and how they do salt and pepper things; I think it makes the copy funny. In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you. It was all about my will, my agenda - and I learned to take my hands off that control panel. 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. My security was having Curtis Hanson at the helm of this. I knew he would get me where he wanted me to go. It was a wild ride. It was a scary ride. It was really, really scary at times. Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff. On that film and I Dreamed of Africa, I was able to submerge myself into the work and we were all there for the same reason: To try to do the best we can, do a great piece of work and not take it all so seriously. 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. She just came out of left field because Altman really didn't know who Kitty Potter was. And I don't think he even knew who she was at the end of the shoot. I sure as hell didn't know who she was, and I really did not know what this movie was about. 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. The governor of California, Pete Wilson, recently signed a bill offering protection to diseased and crippled farm animals. We worked very hard to get this act, the first of its kind in the country. The media paint ugly pictures about you. There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do. To form another person's opinion, you are its mirror, and to raise a halfway decent human being on this planet is a pretty hard job in this day and age. We can't comment about that yet, but I can tell you one thing about Altman: I trust him. I trust that he knows what's real. That was my whole take on him when I worked with him for the first time on Fool for Love. Well, Alec and I are looking for a farm, because I have a cow named Henry. Well, I'm not very comfortable with looking at myself in the mirror before I do a scene, anyway. It really throws me. When you work with Adrian it's a love-hate thing. You hate him because he wants you to do this, and you love him when it all goes well. You have to be a little unreal to be in this business. 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. |
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