Kim Basinger Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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• A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

  Kim Basinger

  Done, Next, Actresses

  "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 think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Real, Home

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Real, Thinking

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

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• I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Children, Compassion

  "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 13, 2015.

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• 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.

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• I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.

  Kim Basinger

  Film, Bigs, I Can

  "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 13, 2015.

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• 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.

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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.

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• With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

  Kim Basinger

  Play, People, Music Love

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I love to be nervous before a scene.

  Kim Basinger

  Nervous, Scene

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• I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

  Kim Basinger

  Thinking, Looks, Phenomenal

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• I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

  Kim Basinger

  Real, Shy, Social

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

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• I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

  Kim Basinger

  Worst Enemy, Sometimes, Projects

  "Kim Basinger: Kim Confidential". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 1997.

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• I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

  Kim Basinger

  Horse, New York, Tradition

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• In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

  Kim Basinger

  People, Cinema, Take A Chance

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• I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

  Kim Basinger

  Trying, Lasts, Sushi

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• One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

  Kim Basinger

  Drinking, Order, Hygiene

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