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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (née Curtis; born November 22, 1958), commonly known as Jamie Lee Curtis, is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). A big hit, the film established her as a notable actress in horror, and she subsequently starred in Halloween II (1981), The Fog (1980), Prom Night (1980), Terror Train (1980), and Roadgames (1981), gaining the status of "scream queen" to mainstream audiences. Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many film genres, including the cult comedy films Trading Places (1983), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

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~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children. ~

Children, Kids, Mom, Nothing, Present, Regret

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Banal, Boring, Fashion, Row, Shows

I had the best time I ever had on a Jim Cameron movie - True Lies, 1994. It was the single most freeing experience as an actor I've ever had. And, of course, in the midst of it there was this humungous circus that he conceived.

Freeing, Humungous, Lies, Lying, Movie, Time

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

Mother, Women, Bombarded By, Bombarded, Seven

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.

Anniversary, Good, Model, Mother, Numbers, Watched

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

Adults, Daughter, Family, Friendship, Mom

Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to. ' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

Exchange, Unwilling, Word, Words

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

Actress, Actresses, Driven, Life, Showbusiness

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Marriages, Person, Programming, Useless, Way

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

Handful, Helpful, Mom, Said

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

Life, Live, Regret, Truthful

We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

Children, Death, Memorial Day, Play, Veterans Day, War

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Acceptance, Change, Life Is, Recovery

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

Begins, Believe, Focus, Home

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.

Being Me, Interested, People, Pretending

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair. " If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

Come, Dames, Despair, Phrases, Tried

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

Know, Knows, Like, Replicate, Want

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

Acted, Miss, Missing, Think, Thinking, World

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

Children, Fame, Hard, Home

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

Fat, Perfect, Perpetuating, Thinking, Tummy, Years

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