Quotes by Jamie Lee Curtis

About Jamie Lee Curtis:

Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author.
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So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more y...

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

Jamie Lee Curtis

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

Jamie Lee Curtis

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

Jamie Lee Curtis

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Author Bio

  • NameJamie Lee Curtis
  • Descriptionactress, author
  • BornNovember 22, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Writer