Jamie Lee Curtis
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Biography
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, alongside multiple comedies, she is regarded as a "scream queen".
"People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing."
"The greatest gift to give to the people you love the most is your recovery."
"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."
"Exchange the words ‘have to’ with ‘get to.’ Exchange the word ‘can’t’ with ‘unwilling.’"
"Getting older makes you more alive."
"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."
"And it felt really good to be needed. And to be trusted. And to be special."
"We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success."
"Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition."
"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."
"Last October, the actor Jamie Lee Curtis posted a photo on Instagram showing terrified-looking children peering up at the sky. She captioned the post “terror from the skies” with an Israel flag emoji. When it was pointed out that the kids were Palestinian, she deleted the post. Her eyes may have told her that those innocent children were terrified; the narrative, however, was more complicated."
"I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging."
"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."
"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
"I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be."
"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
"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."
"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."
"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
"For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?"
"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."
"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."
"I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life."
"I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution."