Kim Basinger Quotes

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn`t think twice. Give back life. Don`t eat meat.

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

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.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I`m a very determined person.

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 think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

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.

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

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

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

I love to be nervous before a scene.

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go "God! Movie stars! Wow!" And I`m in this business. I walk out there just fascinated and I always want to stay like that. I`m just a little kid going to these movies and I don`t ever want to change.

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.

"It`s something many actresses had back then. When they had it, they had it, this kind of glint. It was something in their eyes, something in their intonation. They always caught you off guard."

"Sometimes it takes the truth a little longer to cross the finishing line. When people start finding out the truth, they all turn around. It`s all about time. You have to have patience."

"Humor is intelligence. Humor is so important in your life. And it`s so important to know that you can always fall back on it, even when things are just going in the most spiraling downhill."