Latest Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes from Interviews

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• I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Home, Acting, Honestly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What's interesting is, there's always a lot of talk to young people about finding their passion, following their passion. But I remember reading somewhere that a lot of people don't have a passion. And there's this pressure to have one. It's perfectly fine not to have one.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Reading, Passion, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Play, Bags, Knows

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Crazy, Energy, Fulfilling

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Waiting, Want, Feels

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Directors, Needs, Want

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• If I do a move I don't like, I don't want to get so upset with myself.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Moving, Upset, Want

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Orange, Midwest, Way

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hollywood, Knows, Known

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Healthy, Compulsion

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Party, School, Years

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Acting, Passionate, Painting

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  School, Years, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Morning, Laughing, Clerks

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Jobs, Different, Firsts

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Jobs, Wanted

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Father, Saving, Conservative

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Publicity, Nervous

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Lasts, Interviews, Committed

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Taken, Singing, Lessons

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Done, Enough

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Actors, Difficult, Has Beens

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

• I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Thinking, Vanity