Top 40 Selma Blair Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God knows, I never want to hurt someone’s feelings.”

— Selma Blair

2. “I have no ego, I’ll make fun of myself, and I’ll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.”

— Selma Blair

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3. “I don’t always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.”

— Selma Blair

4. “I have three sisters, that’s it for the family.”

— Selma Blair

5. “I was a smoker for about 20 years.”

— Selma Blair

6. “I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.”

— Selma Blair

7. “My sister, I have a sister who’s 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.”

— Selma Blair

8. “I don’t like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I’m not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.”

— Selma Blair

9. “I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I’d cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.”

— Selma Blair

10. “I can’t afford security. I can’t afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.”

— Selma Blair

11. “My mother dressed me always very conservatively.”

— Selma Blair

12. “I went through a period of pulling away from everything – acting, people – not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.”

— Selma Blair

13. “I have very little faith that I’ll ever find someone. I’ve had some bad luck and I’ve made some bad choices – not in men, but in how I’ve chosen to deal with relationships.”

— Selma Blair

14. “The only time he cries is if he’s hungry. We all have nipples. I don’t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can’t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.”

— Selma Blair

15. “I do turn down things that I feel aren’t right for me, like when it’s some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I’m not worried about it.”

— Selma Blair

16. “I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone’s real belief in something to help tell a story.”

— Selma Blair

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17. “I put my foot in my mouth every time I’m interviewed.”

— Selma Blair

18. “I’m open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.”

— Selma Blair

19. “I played teen roles until high definition came out.”

— Selma Blair

20. “I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?”

— Selma Blair

21. “I’m one of those hovering mothers and I know it’s really important to have an independent child, so I’m trying to back off, but it’s hard. I love him so much, and he’s so funny and cute to me.”

— Selma Blair

22. “A wedding is such a girl thing.”

— Selma Blair

23. “Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he’s so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.”

— Selma Blair

24. “In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.”

— Selma Blair

25. “I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.”

— Selma Blair

26. “The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?”

— Selma Blair

27. “I don’t have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.”

— Selma Blair

28. “It’s fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.”

— Selma Blair

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29. “Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there’s a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I’ve been very blessed.”

— Selma Blair

30. “I think I’m more approachable with long hair. When it’s short, I come across as being artsy and weird.”

— Selma Blair

31. “Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven’t won the lead roles.”

— Selma Blair

32. “I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they’d cast the girl without a line on her face.”

— Selma Blair

33. “I love to laugh and well, who doesn’t?”

— Selma Blair

34. “I’m a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I ‘should’ do for my career.”

— Selma Blair

35. “It’s fun to go to the movies and be scared.”

— Selma Blair

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36. “It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.”

— Selma Blair

37. “The truth is, I am a person who is meant to stay home and read books, maybe have a nice dinner, and then put myself to bed. That is the life I’m built for. It’s all about the setting. When I’m out in public, it’s as if my system gets overwhelmed and instantaneously short-circuits. I turned the phoenix into ashes, by accident, in small ways, all the time.”

— Selma Blair

38. “Didion again: “There’s a point where you go with what you’ve got. Or you don’t go.”

— Selma Blair

39. “That’s life. It’ll blindside you, that thing you didn’t know about. Especially when it’s been there all along.”

— Selma Blair

40. “Every person on this earth needs just one person who sees them and roots for them. Deeply, truly. One person. It’s what we all need to get through. The more the merrier but let’s start with one.”

— Selma Blair

41. “We’re all in search of a story that explains who we are.”

— Selma Blair

42. “Someone once told me that grief is love you can no longer express.”

— Selma Blair

43. “There is always one person who gets under our skin, who knows our weak spots and neuroses and can’t help but go in for the kill. They are the people who wound us the most, because we care so much about what they think. For my mother, that person was PopPop. For me, that person is my mother.”

— Selma Blair