121 Meaningful Quotes By Michelle Pfeiffer That Teach Us To Take Life As It Comes
Michelle Pfeiffer is an American actress and producer. It may sound weird, but initially she found it hard to convince casting directors and agents that in spite of her pretty face she could actually act. Even after her breakthrough performance in ‘Scarface’, a crime film directed by Brian De Palma, her beauty continued to eclipse her acting ability. Today an internationally acclaimed actress with numerous awards to her credit, Pfeiffer cites her determination and her bloodline as the secrets behind her success. In interviews, apart from talking about her profession, she has also talked freely about her family, her ideas on happy marriage and parenting, her hobby, her addiction to cigarettes and so many other topics. Let us now look into some of her meaningful quotes on life, marriage, success, perspective, money, parents etc.
I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.
Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.
Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.
Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.
When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.
Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!
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.
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.
I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.
I'm good at disguising my feelings.
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.
It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.
You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.
![Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/michelle-pfeiffer-113031.jpg)
Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.
It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.
People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!
Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.
I still look like a duck.
I guess I do a really good job at covering.
I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.
I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.
Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.
Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.
My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.
If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.
I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.
I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!
I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.
