Top 90 Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

52. “It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I respect so much the work that so many women do but that’s just not what I do. I have a job where I advertise yogurt that makes you poop and that people love and people tell me about their bowel movements every day.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

56. “My mom said I was a handful. Now I’m helpful.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

57. “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.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

58. “The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don’t try new things, don’t look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don’t have that.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

59. “I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, ‘Wow, this was awesome!’”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

60. “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

61. “My husband once said he’d never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it’s a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I’d had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I’d even begun.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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

— Jamie Lee Curtis

63. “To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

64. “There is nothing you will regret more in your life – nothing – than not being present for your children.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

65. “Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that’s part of society.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

66. “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

67. “Because I know I’m an addict, and I know I’m an alcoholic.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

68. “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.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

69. “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

70. “People need things. I don’t live a monk’s existence, I’m a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn’t feel like there’s an overabundance of something.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

71. “Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don’t make anything “special.” If it’s being held for something “special,” wear it to the market. Wear it every day!”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

72. “People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It’s the universal thing.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

73. “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

74. “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

75. “The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever watched happen in front of me.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

76. “There is a point when you aren’t as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

77. “I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I’m a normal person.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

78. “I love performing and pretending – it’s very easy for me.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

79. “If I’m honest I don’t think the world would miss me if I never acted again.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

80. “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

81. “Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it’s a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

82. “My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

83. “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

84. “I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

85. “It’s not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don’t work very much anymore. It’s kind of heartbreaking.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

86. “I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that’s all a direct result of getting sober.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

87. “I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

88. “I’m a disciplinarian. I’m the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

89. “Actually, the books were never a planned career path.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

90. “It’s very hard, when you’re a famous person, to “de-famous” your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis