Melanie Griffith's Quotes

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Children enhance you.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?