Christine Baranski Quotes

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Intelligence, Work, Film, Humanity, Want)

"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Life, Time)

"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."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Success, People)

"Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Actor)

"Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic."
- Christine Baranski

"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."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Career, Friends, Television)

"Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?"
- Christine Baranski

"The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Negative, Energy, Waste)

"The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Sound)

"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Character)

"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Television, Theater)

"You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Actor)

"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Mom, Wife)

"You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost."
- Christine Baranski

"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Choice, Television)

"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Job, Sleep)

"I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship."
- Christine Baranski

"Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Act, Acting, Error)

"Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera."
- Christine Baranski

"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Mother, Children, Effect, Losing)

"I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Clothes, Drinking)

"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."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Movies, People, Hollywood, Privilege, Will, World)

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Film)

"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."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Comedy, Energy, Focus)

"I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another."
- Christine Baranski

"I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Eyes, Violence)

"I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: People)

"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: People)

"I wish I didn't have to live up to anything."
- Christine Baranski

"I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Wife, Being, Famous)

"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Culture)

"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Pretty)

"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."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Women, Family, God, Trying, Want)