1.
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski
2.
Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.
Christine Baranski
3.
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
4.
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
Christine Baranski
5.
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
Christine Baranski
6.
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
Christine Baranski
7.
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Christine Baranski
8.
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
9.
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
10.
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
Christine Baranski
11.
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
Christine Baranski
12.
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
13.
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
Christine Baranski
14.
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
Christine Baranski
15.
Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
Christine Baranski
16.
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
Christine Baranski
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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?
Christine Baranski
20.
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.
Christine Baranski
21.
In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.
Christine Baranski
22.
I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.
Christine Baranski
23.
Why put it on if you're not going to strut?
Christine Baranski
24.
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.
Christine Baranski
25.
I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
Christine Baranski
26.
Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.
Christine Baranski
27.
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.
Christine Baranski
28.
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct
Christine Baranski
29.
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.
Christine Baranski
30.
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski
31.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves
Christine Baranski
32.
You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
Christine Baranski
33.
You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
Christine Baranski
34.
I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
Christine Baranski
35.
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
36.
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house
Christine Baranski
37.
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
Christine Baranski
38.
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
Christine Baranski
39.
I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
Christine Baranski
