Christine Lahti Quotes

• I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Marijuana, Smoking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

  Christine Lahti

  Birthday, Fighting, Careers

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• Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

  Christine Lahti

  Long, Competition, Healthy

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• Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

  Christine Lahti

  Jobs, Eye, Theatre

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• My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

  Christine Lahti

  Heart, Class, Shapes

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• I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

  Christine Lahti

  Challenges

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• When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

  Christine Lahti

  Children, My Children, My Time

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• I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

  Christine Lahti

  Love, Age, Cameras

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• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

  Christine Lahti

  College, Careers, Feminist

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• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

  Christine Lahti

  Passion, Acting, Actresses

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• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  Christine Lahti

  News, Actors, Reason

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• Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

  Christine Lahti

  Doe, Television, Offers

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• Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

  Christine Lahti

  Challenges, Actors, Faces

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• When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

  Christine Lahti

  Real, Starting Over, Acting

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• I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

  Christine Lahti

  Land, Roles, Chance

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• A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

  Christine Lahti

  Swag, House, Pieces

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• I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Way, Determined

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• I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

  Christine Lahti

  Two, Important, Actors

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• I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

  Christine Lahti

  Thinking, Different, Film

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• I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

  Christine Lahti

  Jobs, Small Jobs

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• It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

  Christine Lahti

  Ghouls, Careers, Choices

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• Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

  Christine Lahti

  Thinking, Hollywood, Enough

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