Top 60 Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a Taurus. To the bone.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

2. “You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

3. “You can have it all, but you can’t do it all.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

4. “I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

5. “I’m afraid to be alone, I’m afraid not to be alone. I’m afraid of what I am, what I’m not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don’t want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I’m afraid to leave. And I’m just tired, you know? I’m just so tired of being afraid.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

6. “You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

7. “I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

8. “When you’re young and have a dream, it’s pretty simplistic. You don’t think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

9. “I’m a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad – and other people, too. At the same time, I think that’s one of the reasons I’m successful. Because I really care about what I do.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

10. “It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

11. “My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I’m not a dessert person. I’m more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

12. “People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

13. “I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

14. “I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

15. “Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

16. “Just when you think you’ve got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who’s controlling, you can’t control it. Of course, I don’t think I’m controlling, but that’s what I’ve been told!”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

17. “And I’m a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there’s nothing more aging than misery.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

18. “Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.”

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19. “I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn’t want their kids playing with me.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

20. “I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

21. “My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that’s my stock. That’s how I want my kids to be too.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

22. “I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That’s changed a lot, thank goodness.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

23. “If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

24. “I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

25. “I like understanding what’s underneath, what’s really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

26. “Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we’ve set aside enough money for our kid’s therapy.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

27. “I don’t know if it’s naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It’s not until I get into it that I realize what I’ve thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

28. “Honestly, depending on what stage I’m at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I’ve never been against plastic surgery – I’m against bad plastic surgery. I’m against the overuse of plastic surgery.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

29. “Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

30. “Well, I’m very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I’m probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I’m strong.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

31. “It’s simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age, I think, what the hell, and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

32. “I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

33. “I don’t believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can’t stop you getting older.”

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34. “When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.”

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35. “I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.”

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36. “I don’t think it’s easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it’s obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

37. “For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

38. “Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

39. “One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that’s one of the things that intrigued me about it.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

40. “Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I’m no different. It’s just human nature.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

41. “I do find comedy difficult. I don’t know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

42. “I look like a duck. It’s the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

43. “The value of a good education has never left me.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

44. “I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

45. “There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

46. “There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it’s so hard for me to do that.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

47. “I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I’m 50 and everyone knows I’m 50 – who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

48. “Even though I don’t feel I need approval, it’s still important to me to give a good performance. I’m hard on myself.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

49. “I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can’t work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

50. “I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what’s going to be happening at any given moment.”

— Michelle Pfeiffer