"I became an actress in my own eyes in '9 1/2 Weeks.' I did what I wanted to do emotionally. I built myself up and tore myself down so many times that I was electrically disturbed after it was over; marbles were rolling off the table." - Basinger in Premiere magazine, September 1989 |
"You know what's funny? After all the years I've been in Hollywood, I still don't know a lot of the directors and producers who are working today. I've never met them. I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social. It really is. I don't think it's a bad game. But early on I didn't know there was a game. I know now." - Basinger quoted in Interview magazine, December 1994 |
"I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me." - Basinger quoted in Movieline magazine, January/February 1994 |
"Kim could understand this part like few other actresses," he says. "She knows all too well that having a glamorous, erotic image can be an asset and a liability. It sometimes hides the real person behind the gorgeous facade. Before you meet her, you think, 'She's Kim Basinger! She's this goddess!' Then you realize she's very different from that Hollywood glamour-puss. She's tomboyish, she's slightly awkward, she clomps around in her heels. The reality is that the woman you see on screen isn't her." - Curtis Hanson, director of "L.A. Confidential" to Entertainment Weekly Oct. 3, 1997 |
"(In) my life, I've been so attracted to the Harold And Maude aspect of living, you know, as opposed to your norm. Normal is sooooo boring. I like to spice it up a little myself." - Basinger to Bruce Kirkland of the Toronto Sun, July 11, 2004 |
in 1989, With a group of investors bought town of Braselton, GA for $20 million |
1993 Ordered by Los Angeles Superior Court to pay over $8.92 million in damages to Main Line Pictures for breaching an oral contract to perform in the motion picture "Boxing Helena" (March) |