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. Kim Basinger More Quotes by Kim Basinger More Quotes From Kim Basinger If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. Kim Basinger vegetarianismgivingthinking I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. Kim Basinger intuitiontwopeople When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all. Kim Basinger dont-regretregretdamn You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing. Kim Basinger doing-nothingcan-dosometimes I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force. Kim Basinger forcefoundwant We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it. Kim Basinger silenceneeds You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs. Kim Basinger insecurityjourneyyears I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care. Kim Basinger difficultcare You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire Kim Basinger cleverwritingpeople The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything. Kim Basinger lack-of-trustdreampeople You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria. Kim Basinger oceanlongthinking It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it. Kim Basinger panic-attacksanxietyfields When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled. Kim Basinger givingpeoplethinking I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care. Kim Basinger creativewritingrunning Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life. Kim Basinger daughtermotherheart I wouldn't trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I'm the luckiest girl in the world as far as I'm concerned. Kim Basinger girlmatterworld I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky. Kim Basinger blessednew-yorkjobs You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Kim Basinger projectsdoneschool I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes. Kim Basinger responsibleprocesspeople My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me. Kim Basinger prioritiesdaughtermother