Top 90 Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t judge a book by its cover ’til you’ve read the book.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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2. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

3. “The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

4. “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

5. “Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

6. “I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

7. “Getting sober was the single bravest thing I’ve ever done and will ever do in my life.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

8. “I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

9. “It’s not that I’m retired; I just no longer accept acting work.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

10. “I’m not a prophet. I’m not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

11. “My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they’ve gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

12. “I have a rule: Pretend you’re going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you’d wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

13. “We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

14. “Exchange the words ‘have to’ with ‘get to.’ Exchange the word ‘can’t’ with ’unwilling.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

15. “Being a parent is a weird juggling act – and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

16. “You can’t live a truthful life without regret.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

17. “I’m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I’m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

18. “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.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

19. “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

20. “When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

21. “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

22. “By the way, food and rent aren’t the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

23. “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

24. “I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless ‘scandal’ and the subsequent parodies.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

25. “My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that’s exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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26. “I have very short hair. It’s the only cute haircut I think I’ve ever had.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

27. “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

28. “The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don’t have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it’s that way in parenting; it’s that way in marriages.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

29. “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

30. “We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

31. “I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is “Compare and despair.” If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I’m going to come out at the bottom and be sad.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

32. “Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don’t want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

33. “The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

34. “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

35. “I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

36. “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.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

37. “I thought, while they’re up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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

— Jamie Lee Curtis

39. “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

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

— Jamie Lee Curtis

41. “I’m uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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

— Jamie Lee Curtis

43. “I’ve been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

44. “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

45. “I want to be older. I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

46. “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?”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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47. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

48. “I’m one of those people who does a lot of things. I’m lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

49. “Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don’t change.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

50. “I’ve been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis