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. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I’m going to look the way God intends me to look… with a little help from Manolo Blahnik. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. – Jamie Lee Curtis
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I’m uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection. – Jamie Lee Curtis
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. – Jamie Lee Curtis
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. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I’m a performer. I’ve just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time. – Jamie Lee Curtis
I never represented glam. That’s the thing, you’ll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I’m uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring. – 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
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 wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places. – Jamie Lee Curtis
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. – Jamie Lee Curtis
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. – 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
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. – 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
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 was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves. – Jamie Lee Curtis
With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you’re coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent. – Jamie Lee Curtis
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn’t. – Jamie Lee Curtis
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. – Jamie Lee Curtis
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. – Jamie Lee Curtis
