Top 60 Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

2. “I try and stay positive; being negative isn’t good for my personality. I don’t just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It’s like a dark cloud, ‘Uh oh, here we go,’ and have to snap out of it.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

3. “If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

4. “I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

5. “I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

6. “I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

7. “A great politician has great charisma.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

8. “I get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

9. “Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

10. “I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood – people stick together more.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

11. “I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

12. “After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I’m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

13. “I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

14. “I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

15. “I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

16. “I’m quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I’m against diets. I eat when I’m hungry, three meals a day.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

17. “I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a – you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others – and to yourself.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

18. “I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it’s very good for the hair.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

19. “I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

20. “Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

21. “For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

22. “I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know. Sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

23. “Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

24. “He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

25. “I don’t deny myself food. I’m no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

26. “I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn’t hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I’ve worked hard at trying to look my best.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

27. “I like ‘Zorro.’ I like people you can believe that don’t have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He’s just a guy working for the people, to save the people.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

28. “I don’t know, ‘Zorro’ was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I’m, like, from Wales.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

29. “I do think I’m lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

30. “Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

31. “In Wales it’s brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes ‘So what you doing now?’ And I go, ‘Oh, I’m doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.’ And they go, ‘Ooh, good.’ And that’s it.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

32. “I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I’m just a goofball.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

33. “The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

34. “I eat like a horse – my mother still brings me Cadbury’s chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite – but I work out.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

35. “I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

36. “I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth – they always look polished afterwards.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

37. “My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

38. “I believe I was born to breed.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

39. “It’s true, I don’t like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

40. “I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

41. “I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They’re too beautiful to wear.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

42. “I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

43. “I don’t eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

44. “I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that’s all the advice I can give.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

45. “When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

46. “There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

47. “If my husband’s going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

48. “When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don’t do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

49. “I’m obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don’t use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that’s smaller and weighted.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

50. “If I’m going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven’t played before, with great people. It had better be fun.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones