Christine Baranski Quotes
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Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me
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It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
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Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
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You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
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I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
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In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.
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I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
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Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
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I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
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Why put it on if you're not going to strut?
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I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.
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In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
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I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
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The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
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Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.
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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct
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If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.
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I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
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Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
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Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
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I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
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Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.
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I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
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It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely
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It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do
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I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
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Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
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We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?
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You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
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If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic
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