Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong. Jamie Lee Curtis More Quotes by Jamie Lee Curtis More Quotes From Jamie Lee Curtis I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober. Jamie Lee Curtis soberrecoverythinking So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door. Jamie Lee Curtis daughtermotherdoors By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch. Jamie Lee Curtis moneysleepway With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent. Jamie Lee Curtis colorhairtwo My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do. Jamie Lee Curtis charitable-worklife-ischildren My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought. Jamie Lee Curtis holidaymemorieschildren For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good? Jamie Lee Curtis readingblowyears People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing. Jamie Lee Curtis realhairpeople 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. Jamie Lee Curtis boringfashionshows I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven. Jamie Lee Curtis actressesdriven I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!" Jamie Lee Curtis high-schoollooksschool I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. Jamie Lee Curtis getting-olderselfthinking Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. Jamie Lee Curtis backdropmy-familyhollywood Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic. Jamie Lee Curtis alcoholicsaddictionknows I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it. Jamie Lee Curtis rhythmguitarplay 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. Jamie Lee Curtis anniversarymotheryears I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. Jamie Lee Curtis acceptancehappinessmoving I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it. Jamie Lee Curtis botoxplasticlittles I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. Jamie Lee Curtis agemotherpeople 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. Jamie Lee Curtis pretendingbeing-mepeople
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