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Christine Baranski
American
Actress
About the author
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Sound
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Character
You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Work
#Ability
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Want
#Film
#Work
#Humanity
#Intelligence
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Time
#Life
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#People
#Success
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Actor
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Career
#Friends
#Television
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Time
#Negative
#Energy
#Waste
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Television
#Theater
You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Actor
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Wife
#Mom
You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Television
#Choice
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Job
#Sleep
I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Act
#Error
Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Children
#Mother
#Effect
#Losing
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Time
#Clothes
#Drinking
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#People
#Will
#Hollywood
#World
#Movies
#Privilege
I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Film
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Comedy
#Focus
#Energy
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Eyes
#Violence
I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#People
I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#People
I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Wife
#Being
#Famous
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Culture
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Pretty
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
Christine Baranski,
American
Actress
#Want
#God
#Family
#Trying
#Women