Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes


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The Quotable Michelle Pfeiffer
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Michelle Pfeiffer's Famous Lines
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Grease 2 (1982)
Character name:
Stephanie Zinone
Quote(s):

Stephanie Zinone: I want a whole lot more than the boy next door. I want hell on wheels.

Stephanie: You know all this deep junk and everything. You must think I am some kinda dummy, right?
Michael: Actually, I think you're kinda terrific.

Stephanie Zinone: Not weird weird, but like exciting weird.
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Scarface (1983)
Character name: Elvira Hancock
Quote(s):

Elvira Hancock: Can't you stop saying fuck all the time?

Antonio Montana: Hey baby what is your problem? Huh, you got a problem? You're good looking, you got a beautiful body, beautiful legs, beautiful face, all these guys in love with you. Only you got a look in your eye like you haven't been fucked in a year!
Elvira: Hey, Jose. Who, why, when, and how I fuck is none of your business, okay? And don't call me baby, I'm NOT your baby.

Tony Montana: Look at that: a junkie... I got a junkie for a wife... Her womb is so polluted... I can't even have a fucking little baby with her!
Elvira Hancock: HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! What makes you so much better than me? What do you do? Kill people? Deal your drugs? Real contribution to human history Tony! What makes you think you can be a father? You don't even know how to be a good husband!
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Tequila Sunrise (1998)
Character name: Jo Ann Vallenari
Quote(s):

Jo Ann: What is it? You need some chap stick or lip gloss or something? Because your lips keep getting stuck on your teeth. Or is that your idea of a smile?

Jo Ann: I'm sorry. I was just joking. I didn't mean to hurt you.
Dale: Aw, come on. It didn't hurt that bad. Just looking at you hurts more.

Jo Vallenari
: Mr. McKussic, it seems, has been engaged in his business for purely romantic reasons, whilst you have been engaged in romance for purely business reasons.
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Batmane Returns (1992)
Character name: Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Quote(s):

Selina Kyle: Wow, THE Batman, or is it just "Batman"? Uh, your choice, of course!
Selina Kyle: Well, that was very brief. Just like all the men in my life. (At the time when Batman is walking away from her)

Catwoman: I don't know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much yummier.

Selina Kyle: A kiss under the mistletoe. You know, mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.
Bruce Wayne: But a kiss can be even deadlier... if you mean it.
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Wolf (1994)
Character name: Laura Alden
Quote(s):

Stewart Swinton: If you find me so attractive, how about me fucking you to death right now darling, how would that be?
Laura Alden: I don't know I'll have to try it.
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Character name: Titania
Quote(s):


Titania: Come, my lord, and in our flight / Tell me how it came this night / That I sleeping here was found / With these mortals on the ground.
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: I am Sam (2001)
Character name: Rita Harrison Williams
Quote(s):

Rita: Sam, I worry. I worry sometimes.
Sam: Yeah... do you worry that you did something wrong?
Rita: No. I worry that I've gotten more out of this relationship than you.

Ritta Williams: Sam, I can go at least another nine rounds, but you got to let me in.

Rita Williams
: It's like every morning I wake up and I FAIL!
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Hairspray (2007)
Character name: Velma von Tussle
Quote(s):

Velma von Tussle: They're just kids, that's why we have to steer them in the white direction.
Corny: RIGHT direction?
Velma von Tussle: Isn't that what I said?

Velma von Tussle: Detroit sound? What's that? The cries of people being mugged?
flixster.actor.standard.02.162660689 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Stardust (2007)
Character name: Lamia
Quote(s):

Lamia: Limbus grass! You dare to steal truth from my lips by feeding me Limbus grass! You've made a very big mistake, Ditchwater Sal.
Ditchwater Sal: How do you know my... Who are you?
Lamia: Look again.
Ditchwater Sal: I shall not seek the star, Your Dark Majesty. I swear.
Lamia: Seek all you wish.
Lamia: You shall not see the star, touch it, smell or hear it. You will not perceive her even if she stands before you. Pray you never meet me again, Ditchwater Sal.
Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes
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  • Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
  • I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
  • For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
  • Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.
  • It`s a lot of fun to play mean and sinister - but you certainly put yourself at risk for scenery chewing. And every once in a while Adam would come over to me after a take and say, "Hey, Michelle, is there a chair leg in your teeth?"
  • "If that nose or those jowls bother you, do it! But this epidemic of people losing sight of what looks good, the distortion that has been going on is creepy." (On cosmetic surgery)
  • "I still think people will find out that I`m really not very talented. I`m really not very good. It`s all just been a big sham."
  • "I have to say this singing was harder than any I`ve done before. The melodies are so fast that you can barely get a breath in. But once I got past the `Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into` phase, it was so much fun to sing again."
  • "I was shocked at the prejudice, voiced in some quarters, over my decision to adopt a mixed-race baby. It`s really surprising that people still put so much emphasis on it. None of us are pure anything. We`re all a mixture. Claudia is a beautiful child, and some of the most beautiful people I`ve seen in the world have been of mixed race. As mother of both an adopted child and my own birth-child, there is absolutely no difference in the huge amount of love I feel for both my children. I always knew I wanted to adopt a child and also have one of my own. There is no difference at all."
  • I thought to myself :I can`t move, I can`t breathe, I can`t think. I`m unhappy. I can`t act." (On wearing her costume in Batman Returns (1992) for the first time)
  • "People like Susan Sarandon have paved the way and our window of opportunity expands incrementally year by year. Obviously the kind of roles I`m offered are different than before, but I feel like the roles have only gotten more interesting. I want to grow up to be Judi Dench or Ellen Burstyn. The older we get, the less we work, but look at the work just those two women are doing. It gets deeper."
  • "Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am."
  • "Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we`ve set aside enough money for our kid`s therapy."
  • "Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring."
  • "I`m a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad and other people, too. At the same time, I think that`s one of the reasons I`m successful. Because I really care about what I do."
  • "I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table."
Quotes About Michelle Pfeiffer
Quote: “I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingénue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that.”
Who said/wrote it:

Joan Allen


Quote: “I hate movie hours. I don’t know any women that look good at 6 in the morning. I take that back. Maybe Michelle Pfeiffer.”
Who said/wrote it:

Kirstie Alley


Quote: During an interview, Brad Pitt said he would let jennifer sleep with Steven Tyler if there was ever an oppurtunity. On her part, Jennifer said that if she were to pick someone who Brad Pitt can sleep with, it would be Michelle Pfeiffer “On the flip side there’s Michelle Pfeiffer. He can have that one. you couldn’t say no to Michelle Pfeiffer."
Who said/wrote it:

Jennifer Aniston


Quote: “Michelle represents the best of both worlds. She’s very feminine, understated and sophisticated, yet also mysterious, confident and provocative.”

“She is one of those absolute pure beauties who mirrors my image of elegance, sophistication and understatement.”

“Michelle wears my clothes with such elegance, grace and natural confidence. All eyes are upon her when she walks down any red carpet because of her innate sense of being. She is always in harmony with herself and that shows. This perfectly mirrors my philosophy on design and style –’less is more’– and the evolution of a look rather than something radically different on every occasion. Michelle embodies the woman who inspires my work: feminine, understated and elegant yet also mysterious, confident and provocative.”

Who said/wrote it:

Giorgio Armani


Quote:
When he was aske about the best Batman “For me, i would say No. 2 (Batman Returns). I liked Michelle Pfeiffer and the Penguin. I likes that whole tone. I think Tim Burton’s great.”
Who said/wrote it:

Darren Aronofsky


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“Michelle Pfeiffer is the only person I’ve interviewed who made me forget my question. I was just looking at her —speechless. She’s THAT beautiful.”
Who said/wrote it:

Jules Asner


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“My favorites are Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - male actors who have screen presence. I also look up to people like Gwyneth Paltrow and Michelle Pfeiffer. Working with people with a lot of acting experience is what I look forward to.”
Who said/wrote it:

Mischa Barton


Quote:
“When I started doing publicity for ‘Misery’, the first question was ‘Gee you don’t look like Michelle Pfeiffer.’ I look at Michelle Pfeiffer and think, ‘there’s a beautiful woman who’s fighting to play a wide variety of roles. She’s an actor like I am and wants to play as many different kinds of roles as she can. I think she did an amazing turn in ‘A Thousand Acres.’”
Who said/wrote it:

Kathy Bates


Quote:
“My first crushes were Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer. And when Richie (Bon Jovi guitarist) was going out with Cher, I had a shot with Michelle Pfeiffer- or at least her said i did.”
Who said/wrote it:

Jon Bon Jovi


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Asked about whom he would recommend for the female lead in the next Bond film "I would love Michelle Pfeiffer for the next Bond film or any film I do. I hope there’s at least one film with Pfeiffer in my future."
Who said/wrote it:

Pierce Brosnan


Quote:
“I remember seeing Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 and thinking she was going to be huge.”
Who said/wrote it:

David Carradine


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His speech when received his award for Comedian of the year at ShoWest 1995 “This has been an incredible year for me and you guys made it possible. We both made a great deal of money together. That’s why I’m announcing that I’m retiring from the world of feature films. Obviously I have peaked and I would be a fool to try to keep up this kind of pace. This is a year when all my dreams came true, except for the Michelle Pfeiffer thing.”
Who said/wrote it:

Jim Carrey


Quote:
“She’s the clumsiest woman I’ve ever met. She has this angelic face, and then she gets up and wobbles across the room like a duck, so it makes you laugh… I love her, but it’s almost impossible to get close to her. She’s just very, very private.”
Who said/wrote it:

Cher


Quote:
When was asked about his definition of the ideal woman “There is no such entity as the ideal women. The ideal woman is a mixture. she’s got Nicole Kidman’s laugh, Julia Robert’s string character, Jennifer Lopez strong character and body, and Michelle Pfeiffer’s face. To me Michelle is the quintessence of beauty. Is that not a beautiful combination?”
Who said/wrote it:

George Clooney


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Regarding the actors that she most admired growing up “I loved Michelle Pfeiffer and i still do. But i wasn’t a huge movie buff when i was a kid. I didn’t go to movies a lot.”
Who said/wrote it:

Cameron Diaz


Quote:
Asked for of he had ever a crush on a particular actress Growing up, I always had a crush on Michelle Pfeiffer. I still do, as amatter of fact, always. (Long sigh)… Susan Sarandon too.
Who said/wrote it:

Stephen Dorff



Quote:
Asked for her biggest influeneces as an actress “Jodie Foster, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Drew Barrymore. All incredible women and incredible actresses.”
Who said/wrote it:

Kirsten Dunst



Quote:
I love Michelle Pfeiffer. I’ve loved her since i was a kid.”

“I really admire Michelle Pfeiffer and Cameron Diaz, because they’re not afraid of unglamourous parts. They don’t always play sex kittens, and neither will I.”

Asked for if she could invite any three guests from any time in history to dinner at her house "Gary Oldman because he’s the kind of actor I strive to be, he’s amazing to watch. And I’d say Michelle Pfeiffer because she’s also the kind of actress I really admire. And Steven Spielberg."
Who said/wrote it:

Shannon Elizabeth


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When she was asked for if her appearance affected her career “If I were prettier, I would have had a bigger acting career - it’s easier, damn it, if you look like Michelle Pfeiffer.”
Who said/wrote it:

Carrie Fisher


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When he was asked about why he chosed to play a bad guy in What Lies Beneath “I just thought, ‘Well, why not?’ I know it is a first but I have always wanted to work with Michelle. She is such a professional and I love all her work. People don’t expect it of me but that is up to them. I just couldn’t resist the opportunity.”
Who said/wrote it:

Harrison Ford


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Before the filming of Dangerous Liaisons in 1988 “I remember when Michelle Pfeiffer’s name was suggested for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and I flew to California and there was a plan to meet at a certain time. She rang me up and said, “I can’t come. I’m not feeling well,” or something like that. I said, “Well, I’ve come 3,000 miles, so you’d jolly well better come.” I thought, “Oh, goodness…” I didn’t really know anything about her. I hadn’t really seen her in any films and I thought, “Well, actually, this is a quite sophisticated play. This woman might well be rather intimidated by this.” I remember her reading. I made her read - and she read very, very badly - with the writer, but there was a moment when she was on the floor looking up at him and you could just see that men fell in love with her. You could see absolutely the whole thing laid out, really. Then I remember watching a reel from Married to the Mob and realizing that the woman was absolutely brilliant and that I’d been utterly ridiculous in imagining that she would be out of her depth. So there was something that made me understand why you would cast that woman - because in the end it’s a story about a man who falls in love with a woman. I could see why you would fall in love with her. When you look in her eyes, you can see that look. So I would say that it’s observation rather than whether she can improvise well or do whatever it is other people do. So I would reduce it to a purely human quality.”
Who said/wrote it:

Stephen Frears


Quote:
“She is the Greek ideal, the closer you get the camera to her face, the more beautiful she is. It has something to do with the structural perfection of her beauty, the marble-y cool quality of it.”
Who said/wrote it:

Michael Hoffman



Quote:
“My wife and I don’t work together. We made that decision from the beginning of our relationship. When we do see each other, it’s all about family time!”
Who said/wrote it:

David E. Kelley


Quote:
When he was asked if he had any obssessions “I’d say hockey. That would be my straight answer. My comedy answer would be Michelle Pfeiffer. I have a kind of secret obssession with Michelle Pfeiffer.”
Who said/wrote it:

Denis Leary


Quote:
“Michelle has no godess time, except when she’s on the screen. And then she’s home. I’ve worked with lot of stars, and she’s different. She doesn’t get obsessed with hair and makeup. She’s not a happy girl on the set — she’s very prepared, very serious.”
Who said/wrote it:

Garry Marshall


Quote:
“She’s a good egg, I’m crazy about her… You couldn’t really say Michelle is glacial, but there’s obviously something oscillating beneath the surface there. Her first look at people is ‘Yeah, well, what do you want?’ It’s a form of protection because she’s very sensitive.”
Who said/wrote it:

Jack Nicholson


Quote:
“While we were filming The Age of Innocence, I was breaking up with Johnny Depp & having a rough time. She really took me under her wing & took care of me. It did take a while to get to know her but I respect that. I’ve had actresses call me & say, ‘We’re both famous, let’s hang out.’ Michelle isn’t like that.”
Who said/wrote it:

Winona Ryder


Quote:
When she was asked about if she ever play someone gay, who would she like to be in love with “Oh, God, well, lots of women, becaus I love women so much. I think that because of my masculinity—I would probably put myself with someone very feminine like Michelle Pfeiffer. Actually I find Michelle fantasically attractive. I’m always kind of rushing up to her and kissing her on the mouth because she’s so delicious. She’s soooo delicious.”
Who said/wrote it:

Emma Thompson