Christine Baranski Quotes

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

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

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

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.

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

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

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.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

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

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

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?

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.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

Why put it on if you're not going to strut?

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.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.

I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

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

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.