Kim Basinger Quotes - Page 2

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• As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

  Kim Basinger

  Running, Writing, Creative

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

  Kim Basinger

  Business, Vocabulary, Strange

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

  Kim Basinger

  People, Responsible, Process

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• There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

  Kim Basinger

  Want, This Life, I Can

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

  Kim Basinger

  Jobs, New York, Blessed

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I'm all for anybody having a party who wants that. The funny thing about me and birthdays or any kind of celebration where it brings attention to you in that way is that it's never been anything that I've thoroughly enjoyed - even as a little kid.

  Kim Basinger

  Party, Kids, Funny Things

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

  Kim Basinger

  Kids, Scary, This Generation

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

  Kim Basinger

  Design, Parent, Insecurity

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• 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.

  Kim Basinger

  Growing Up, Thank God, Way

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, First Love, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

  Kim Basinger

  Animal, People, Energy

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Doubt, Becoming

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

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Sex, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.

  Kim Basinger

  Meat, Concerned

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• Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

  Kim Basinger

  Growing Up, Children, Decision

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

  Kim Basinger

  Dancing, Soul, Littles

  "Kim Basinger on Good Kissing, Her Academy Awards Outburst, and Conversations with God". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. January 1, 1991.

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• I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. 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.

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Blessed, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• The media paint ugly pictures about you.

  Kim Basinger

  Media, Ugly, Paint

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• 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.

  Kim Basinger

  Daughter, Mother, Priorities

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

  Kim Basinger

  Wish, Next, Film

  "Kim Basinger on her '11th Hour' role: 'I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Party, My Birthday

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• 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.

  Kim Basinger

  Actors, Remember, Nervous

  "On Second Thought: Kim Basinger". Interview with Jane Gayduk, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 08, 2018.

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• Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

  Kim Basinger

  Done, Way

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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