143 Quotes by Kim Basinger

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.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

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.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

I'm a very determined person.