American - Actress | November 22, 1958 -
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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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.
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I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still always there - who my parents were. As much as I love my parents, if that was the last thing ever said about me - that I was their daughter - I would be disappointed that my contributions weren't strong enough on their own.
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
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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.
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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.
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I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.
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I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
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I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
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All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
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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.
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