Explore Quotes by Jamie Lee Curtis

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

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

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

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

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

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

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 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.

I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

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.

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.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.