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Jamie Lee Curtis
American
Actress
About the author
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.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Now
#People
#Being
If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#World
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Uncertainty
It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#First
Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Kids
#Society
#Drugs
#Alcohol
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.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Life
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Years
#Mother
#Marriage
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Want
#Day
So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Support
#Daughter
#Friends
#Friend
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Want
#People
The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Work
#Forget
With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Time
#Hair
I talk too much.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Talk
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Being
#Books
#Actor
My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Now
#People
#Marriage
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,
American
Actress
#Sense
#Self
#Change
#Parents
#Happiness
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Family
#Business
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Play
#Guitar
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,
American
Actress
#Now
#Life
#Successful
#Result
#Sense
#Positive
I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Years
I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Love
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,
American
Actress
#Today
#Change
#Content
#Happiness
I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Thought
I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Being
#Dream
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,
American
Actress
#Children
#Feeling
#Self
#Age
#Women
#Shame
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Abuse
#University
#Addiction
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#School
#Business
#Philosophy
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Family
#First
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Trying
#Mother
#Age
I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Hair
#Cute
Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Feeling
#Order
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Home
#Money
#Fame
Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Jamie Lee Curtis,
American
Actress
#Career
#Books
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Regret