If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy. Michelle Pfeiffer More Quotes by Michelle Pfeiffer More Quotes From Michelle Pfeiffer I'm a Taurus. To the bone. Michelle Pfeiffer taurus bones For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. Michelle Pfeiffer giving-up sides loss I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times. Michelle Pfeiffer portraits home class I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects! Michelle Pfeiffer breasts shock special I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. Michelle Pfeiffer successful people thinking I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness. Michelle Pfeiffer actresses goodness thinking When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class. Michelle Pfeiffer attractive girl class I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky. Michelle Pfeiffer lucky feels I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs. Michelle Pfeiffer uniforms jeans dresses I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny. Michelle Pfeiffer too-much pressure thinking Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself. Michelle Pfeiffer appreciate important giving Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature. Michelle Pfeiffer human-nature vulnerable different Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do. Michelle Pfeiffer laughing people ideas When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore. Michelle Pfeiffer two people way My walk is consistently made fun of. Michelle Pfeiffer walks made fun If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality. Michelle Pfeiffer waiting reality thinking My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too. Michelle Pfeiffer real kids children I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . . Michelle Pfeiffer let-it-go lines able When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that. Michelle Pfeiffer knowing-everything dream thinking I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing. Michelle Pfeiffer facetime i-can
