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Kim Basinger
17 quotes
“I wanted to be an actress - I didn't want to be a model, I felt myself choking to death. I hated it with a passion. I got hurt very easily. I mean, I'd come in weighing 115 pounds, and I'm 5 feet 7 ½, and I'd be told I was TEN pounds too heavy! And I still wasn't eating a damn thing!”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“about a hundred and eight, I think”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1989 as Vicki Vale in Batman, when asked by Bruce Wayne "how much do you weigh?
“As I have grown up in the acting world, I have learned a lot about really listening and keeping quiet, even in my own life. Less talk, more listening. It has taught me a lot about life and acting.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: about lessons learnt in the acting world in 2004.
“You come to a place in your life where you really learn what it is and how it is and what make you tick as an actress. It takes you a long time to learn how to be an actress. It really does. And then you find these buttons that become so accessible to you. And you just push them.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: about being an actress in 2004.
“I’m not a big red-carpet girl. But I love the work.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: acknowledging her preference to privacy in 2013.
“She grew up in the limelight but I tried to provide stability and a quieter world.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on helping her daughter grow up with nomalcy in 2013.
“I think she wanted to stick her foot in and see what it would bring. And she’s doing extremely well. You just want them to follow their own path, and she totally did this on her own.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on her daughter's career in 2013.
“We are one half of this planet and yet women all over the world are second class citizens. There are many women abused in so many countries. To be a woman today is quite a place to sit.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on the treatment of women in 2015.
“Life does imitate art many times, and people pick up from the movies. Messages are sent that way. I’d like to see more and more women collaborate on films in which they show great, deep devotion and friendship. It’s important.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on female representation in film in 2015.
“But if you really look at it, men are kept as the sacred ones and touted the older they get. It’s always been the old adage that women are put out to pasture the older they get.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on women in hollywood in 2015.
“Well, I’m not very comfortable with looking at myself in the mirror before I do a scene, anyway. It really throws me.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: about her appearance before a scene in 2018.
“The bad thing about animal protection is it never seems to get better, We can look back in history and see things not having changed with the way they were, so it’s an ongoing fight to protect any kind of animal.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on animal protection in 2018.
“People should be reminded that we are one. I don’t care where we’re from or we’re going, but we are all in this together and we are one. Like it or not, suffering together, suffering individually, however it is, we’re all the same one.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on unity in 2018.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, That’s number one. What someone thinks as beautiful might not be to someone else.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on beauty in 2018.
“I love being by the beach because I participate in all water sports, especially surfing, I love music and I love books of all types.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on what she loves doing in 2020.
“I have always loved writing and I'm getting more into it these days, especially children's books.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on taking up new hobby in 2020.
“I wanted to be an actress - I didn't want to be a model, I felt myself choking to death. I hated it with a passion. I got hurt very easily. I mean, I'd come in weighing 115 pounds, and I'm 5 feet 7 ½, and I'd be told I was TEN pounds too heavy! And I still wasn't eating a damn thing!”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1988 interview quoted here