Kim Basinger Quotes

“I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.”

“I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.”

“I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.”

“I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.”

“Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.”

“The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.”

“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.”

“In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.”

“The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.”

“The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values.”