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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."

Business

"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older."

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"So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door."

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"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Explore more quotes by Jamie Lee Curtis

"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."

"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."

"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."

"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."

"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."

"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older."

"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."

"It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers."

"So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door."

"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good."