Christine Lahti quotes Her role as Dr. Kate Austin on TV series Chicago Hope Born: 04/04/1950 Country: usa

• 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)
• Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway. (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) [death/tears]
• As long as I can find complex parts, whether on stage, film, or TV, I'll keep doing that. It's really what I am. (Christine Lahti) [find/complex/stage/film]
• Both of the main characters in My First Mister remind me of Sylvie. I'm very attracted to people who are not in the mainstream, people who are on the edges, lonely people I guess. (Christine Lahti) [people/people/people]
• Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. (Christine Lahti) [competition]
• I also do push-ups when I can, but I normally don't work out my upper body except when I'm lifting my kids, which usually is enough! (Christine Lahti) [soul & body]
• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period! (Christine Lahti) [pleasure]
• I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time. (Christine Lahti) [time]
• 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) [fight/take/care]
• I enjoyed Ghost World, though, but didn't really sit there comparing it to my films; I just enjoyed it for what it was. (Christine Lahti) [ghost]
• I had directed a short film, but basically I'm a student in how to use the camera to tell the story, so I really needed that rehearsal. (Christine Lahti) [film/student]
• I had started smoking when I was 14 and after 20 years was up to 2 1/2 packs a day. I stay disciplined about eating right and working out now because once you get rid of something that self-destructive, you don't want unhealthy behavior anywhere in your life. (Christine Lahti) [smoking/day/right/behavior]
• I had the passion to become one, since I was a young girl and was always active in theatre and other forms of stage work. (Christine Lahti) [pleasure/theatre/stage]
• I joke with a girlfriend of mine who's also in the business that we'll be the only two actresses in Hollywood who haven't had face-lifts, and that we'll be carrying our faces around in wheelbarrows! (Christine Lahti) [joke/business]
• I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself. (Christine Lahti) [take]
• I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera. (Christine Lahti) [stage/love]
• I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. (Christine Lahti) [land]
• I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different. (Christine Lahti) [think/nature/think/film]
• I try to eat low-fat, but once a week I'll have a major dessert or an oily pasta. Mostly I eat fresh fruits and vegetables, chicken and fish. (Christine Lahti)
• I used to take my work home with me before I had children. I don't do that now; I do my work and never bring the character home. (Christine Lahti) [take/housing/character/housing]
• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. (Christine Lahti) [thing/career/respect/money]
• I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning. (Christine Lahti)
• I was a gypsy my whole life, until I did this series. For the first time I can stay home. The studio's only 20 minutes from my house. (Christine Lahti) [life/time/housing]
• I was going to be a stage actress. So I went to New York and studied and waitressed and waitressed and pounded the pavement. I was always a little off. It wasn't like people were begging me to he a sex symbol. (Christine Lahti) [stage/people/sex]
• 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) [take]
• I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. (Christine Lahti) [more/smoking/life]
• I'm still so challenged by this mothering thing. It is so incredibly wild and interesting, and fulfilling... everything. (Christine Lahti) [thing/wild]
• 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) [career/choice/right]
• Its nice to be recognized and receive accolades for the work that you have done. (Christine Lahti) [nice]

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