Quotations and phrases - Christine Lahti

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

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
-- Christine Lahti

Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway.
-- Christine Lahti

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
-- Christine Lahti

As long as I can find complex parts, whether on stage, film, or TV, I'll keep doing that. It's really what I am.
-- Christine Lahti

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

I also do push-ups when I can, but I normally don't work out my upper body except when I'm lifting my kids, which usually is enough!
-- Christine Lahti

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!
-- Christine Lahti

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

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

I enjoyed Ghost World, though, but didn't really sit there comparing it to my films; I just enjoyed it for what it was.
-- Christine Lahti

I had directed a short film, but basically I'm a student in how to use the camera to tell the story, so I really needed that rehearsal.
-- Christine Lahti

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.
-- Christine Lahti

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.
-- Christine Lahti

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
-- Christine Lahti

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

I try to eat low-fat, but once a week I'll have a major dessert or an oily pasta. Mostly I eat fresh fruits and vegetables, chicken and fish.
-- Christine Lahti

I used to take my work home with me before I had children. I don't do that now; I do my work and never bring the character home.
-- Christine Lahti

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

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

I was a gypsy my whole life, until I did this series. For the first time I can stay home. The studio's only 20 minutes from my house.
-- Christine Lahti

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

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

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

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

Movie makers are now finding roles that are more apt to older actresses. They see the talent and they want to put it to best use.
-- Christine Lahti

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
-- Christine Lahti

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

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
-- Christine Lahti

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
-- Christine Lahti

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

What was exciting was to really go beneath the surface and see what makes a person insulting, mean and abusive... especially to ones own child.
-- Christine Lahti

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

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.
-- Christine Lahti

You know what's weird is that we all parent the way we were parented. Sometimes I find myself saying just the things I hated to hear my mother say.
-- Christine Lahti

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