Kim Basinger 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 love to be nervous before a scene.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you’re grape juice. I’ve been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

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

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 never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that’s the real reason that I went into acting.

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

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

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

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 like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.