A biography for Catherine Zeta-Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.”
“I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.”
“I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.”
“I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.”
“I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.”
“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.”
“I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.”
“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.'”
“I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.”
“Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.”
“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.”
“להיות מאושר הוא המפתח האמיתי ליופי. זה מראה מבפנים החוצה. כל השאר זה בונוס.”
“אף פעם לא יכולתי לראות את עצמי חיה בהוליווד אלא אם כן הייתי חייבת, זה לא באמת המקום שלי.”
“הייתי נערת מקהלה. זה כל מה שרציתי בחיים – להיות על הבמה. הייתי מופיעה לאודישנים ואז מחליפה בגדים ועושה אודישן נוסף. היו מקרים שבהם הזדקקתי לשני ניסיונות, אבל בסוף תמיד קיבלתי את התפקיד. הבנתי מה הם חיפשו.”
“I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.”
“Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?”