Quote

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

Kim Basinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kim Basinger
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 8
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Athens
Georgia
Kimila Ann Basinger
Driven
Ambition
Word
Love

More quotes by Kim Basinger

Image
I'm all for anybody having a party who wants that. The funny thing about me and birthdays or any kind of celebration where it brings attention to you in that way is that it's never been anything that I've thoroughly enjoyed - even as a little kid.
Kim Basinger
Image
Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.
Kim Basinger
Image
I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
Kim Basinger
Image
I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
Kim Basinger
Image
I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
Kim Basinger
Image
I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
Kim Basinger
Image
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
Kim Basinger
Image
There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.
Kim Basinger
Image
In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.
Kim Basinger
Image
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.
Kim Basinger
Image
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.
Kim Basinger
Image
The media paint ugly pictures about you.
Kim Basinger
Image
I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.
Kim Basinger
Image
I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.
Kim Basinger
Image
I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.
Kim Basinger
Image
I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.
Kim Basinger
Image
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
Kim Basinger
Image
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
Kim Basinger
Image
With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.
Kim Basinger
Image
You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.
Kim Basinger