Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can't do everything at once and tear your hair out when you miss your baby using a potty for the first time, although my son was obviously very sad that his mum was not there on his big day.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I came out of the womb wearing make-up!”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot ... and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I believe I was born to breed.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“If my husband's going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.”

— Catherine Zeta-Jones