Jamie Lee Curtis quotes

Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author, widely recognized for her work in film and television. Her breakthrough came with the horror classic "Halloween," earning her the title "scream queen." She has won numerous awards and is also known for her activism and writing. Here are 52 of her quotes:

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Jamie Lee Curtis

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

Jamie Lee Curtis

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Jamie Lee Curtis