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" If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away. "

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" If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do. "

Jamie Lee Curtis

Think

Challenge

Aging

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers. "

" Actually, the books were never a planned career path. "

" And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use. "

" I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal. "

" The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior. "

" The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. "

Jamie Lee Curtis

" Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. "

" The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it. "

" 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. "

" The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of. "

Jamie Lee Curtis

Children

Seeing

" I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. "

" I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had. "

" I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are. "

" All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. "

" I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. "

" My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do. "

" I never represented glam. That's the thing, 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. "

" I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice. "

Jamie Lee Curtis

Why Not

Why

" I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me. "

Jamie Lee Curtis

Pretending

Performing

" I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. "

" I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. "