Quotes by Christine Lahti

About Christine Lahti:

Christine Ann Lahti is an American actress and film director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All (1979), Housekeeping (1987), Running on Empty (1988), and Miss Firecracker (1989). For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

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

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

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

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

Christine Lahti

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

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

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

Christine Lahti

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

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

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

Christine Lahti

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

Christine Lahti

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

Christine Lahti

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

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

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

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

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

Christine Lahti

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

Christine Lahti

Author Bio

  • NameChristine Lahti
  • Descriptionactress, film director
  • BornApril 4, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor; Blogger