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
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.
I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.
I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.
My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.
There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
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.