Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

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Catherine Zeta-Jones

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 25, 1969

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

Catherine Zeta-Jones

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!

Catherine Zeta-Jones

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

Catherine Zeta-Jones