Top 25 Kim Basinger Quotes

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

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 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.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

I just thank God that I didn’t grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I’m living proof that they do come true.

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

I don’t live by a lot of society’s rules; I can’t pattern myself after the herd.

The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.

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 always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

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

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

I’ve been to fights, and I’ve seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

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

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.

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

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

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’ve just always believed you can get anything you want in this life – anything you want.

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.

With every project I’ve ever done, I’ve always treated it like I’m still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.