Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes About Love, Life, Success, Money, Drug

Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes:

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
Jamie Lee Curtis

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I’m an addict, and I know I’m an alcoholic.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can’t do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that’s all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it’s all easy.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I don’t think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I love performing and pretending – it’s very easy for me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I never represented glam. That’s the thing, you’ll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I’m uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I talk too much.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I thought, while they’re up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I’m going to do.
Jamie Lee Curtis

If I’m honest I don’t think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I’m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m a tidy, neat person. But I’m not a maniac.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I’m a big believer in people should act their age.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m going to look the way God intends me to look… with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons – I’m not that person.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m not a prophet. I’m not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’m uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
Jamie Lee Curtis

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
Jamie Lee Curtis

It’s not that I’m retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
Jamie Lee Curtis