Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

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.

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

If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Acting is kind of brutal.

I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity.

You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

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.

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.