Jamie Lee Curtis

“I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.”

“I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.”

“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.”

“I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.”

“The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.”

“I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.”

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

“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.”

“I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.”

“All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.”

“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.”

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

“I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.”

“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”

“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.”

“I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.”

“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.”