Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 22, 1958

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

Jamie Lee Curtis

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

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

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

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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

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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 try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

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I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

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If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

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

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Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

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Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

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