Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn`t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work."

"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one`s more feminist than me, but you don`t have to look as if you don`t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."

"In Wales it`s brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes "So what you doing now?" And I go, "Oh, I`m doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins." And they go, "Ooh, good." And that`s it."

After Scottish actor Sean Connery presented her with the Oscar: "A Scotsman giving a Welsh girl an Oscar - oh my God!"

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I`m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."

(On her duel/strip scene from "The Mask of Zorro"): "I kept thinking `Thank God I have long hair in this movie`."

"This film holds a lot of meaning to me, both professionally and personally. I actually met my husband when I was promoting the film in Deauville, France, and it was such an amazing time for me, being completely unknown, really, in America or in Mexico, where I shot the first one. It`s a very important film for me and it`s very close to my heart." (on `Mask of Zorro, The`)

"I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses."

"Did I want this role? That`s like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breath!" on landing the part of Velma Kelly in Chicago.

"I do think I`m lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen."

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I`m sexy. I think he is too. But I don`t go out half-naked with `sex` written across my back.

Humor and that wonderful word called `charisma.` You cannot translate it. I can`t nail it on the head, other than to just say that I`m completely over the top about my husband. - on what makes a man irresistible.

Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.

"I don`t go into the triple-X sites. I`m certainly not going to pay money to see myself naked, when I can just go into the bathroom and whip it off for free." -speaking on the Internet and its fascination with celebrities and porno

I`m more insecure than I ever let anyone know, sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.