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
My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.
I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.
I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.
When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.
You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
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.