K.Michelle Quotes

If I do a move I don't like, I don't want to get so upset with myself.

Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."

I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.

I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.

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.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

My walk is consistently made fun of.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment you meet him. I think it's also just something that he innately does with people.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

I still look like a duck.

My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

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.

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.

When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

People don't like talking about it, but if you're Spanish, you feel a weight.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.

I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.