Kim Basinger Quotes

Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

I've been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I've been among all the top stars - soap stars, people from music - it's been brilliant. But I've kept my feet on the ground.

Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

There is a ferocity to MMA and to the training, but there's such a humanity to it too. It takes so much sacrifice and humility to get into it and to rise through those levels. If you look at the fights as a means to test who you are, every one of these fights is an opportunity to see how far you're willing to go up against yourself - and to find and define your limits.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.