Quotes from Kim Basinger

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

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.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

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.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

I'm a very determined person.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

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

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

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