A biography for Michelle Pfeifferhasn’t been written yet.
“My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.”
“And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.”
“First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.”
“I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.”
“Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.”
“For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.”
“I'm good at disguising my feelings.”
“People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.”
“Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.”
“I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.”
“אני רואה הרבה נשים צעירות שעושות לפרצופים שלהן דברים, ואני תוהה מה בדיוק עובר להן בראש כשהן מחליטות לעשות אותם. אבל להגיד שלא אעשה אף פעם כלום? אני לא מבטיחה שום דבר.”
“לעתים קרובות אנחנו רודפים אחר מיתוסים כוזבים.”
“אף פעם לא איבדתי את התשוקה למשחק. כשאני מגיעה לסט אני מרגישה בבית.”
“I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.”
“I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.”
“You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.”
“Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.”
“I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”
“Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.”
“I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.”