Latest Kim Basinger Quotes from Interviews

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• I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Party, Kids

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

• 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.

• I know that my in-box will be so full the day that I leave the planet. So you try to stay interested in life and bring some kind of comfort and pleasure to others on this planet as you're going through this journey.

  Kim Basinger

  Journey, Trying, Comfort

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

• 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.

• 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.

• There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

  Kim Basinger

  People, Empathy, Needs

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

• I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

  Kim Basinger

  Longevity, Very Thankful, Variety

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2014.

• When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

  Kim Basinger

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

• You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Sexy, Crazy

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

• We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

  Kim Basinger

  Silence, Needs

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

• You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

  Kim Basinger

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Can Do

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

• There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

  Kim Basinger

  Stories, Want, Knows

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

• Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

  Kim Basinger

  Uneasy, Stills, Unforgiving

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

• 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.

• I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

  Kim Basinger

  Drama, People, Done

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

• You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.

  Kim Basinger

  Ocean, Thinking, Long

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

• 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.

• I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

  Kim Basinger

  Ambition, Driven

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

• You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

  Kim Basinger

  School, Done, Projects

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

• 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.

• 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.

• I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

  Kim Basinger

  Want, Being The Best

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

• My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.

  Kim Basinger

  Mom, Running, Fashion

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

• 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.

• My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

  Kim Basinger

  Hurt, Dad, Thinking

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