Jamie Lee Curtis Said

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

As much as I have lived off my mother and her unbelievably famous body for all these years, I'm also my grandmother's granddaughter.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

But marriage is not easy. You have to be extremely comfortable with who you are and you have to establish perimeters for yourself.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I talk too much.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

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

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

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

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
Jamie Lee Curtis

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
Jamie Lee Curtis

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
Jamie Lee Curtis

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
Jamie Lee Curtis

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

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

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

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee Curtis

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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