Kim Basinger
Kim Basinger
Kimila Ann "Kim" Basingeris an American actress and former fashion model. Following a successful modeling career in New York during the early to mid-1970s, Basinger moved to Los Angeles where she began her acting career on television in 1976. She starred in two canceled series as well as several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity, before making her feature debut in the 1981 drama Hard Country. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 December 1953
CityAthens, GA
CountryUnited States of America
You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.
I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
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.
In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.
I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.
I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.
You have to be a little unreal to be in this business
I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.
With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.
I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.