Kim Basinger's Quotes

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.

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 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 love to be nervous before a scene.

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

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 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.

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

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

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.