Christine Lahti

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are…

— Christine Lahti

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

— Christine Lahti

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's…

— Christine Lahti

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

— Christine Lahti

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

— Christine Lahti

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

— Christine Lahti

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident…

— Christine Lahti

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no…

— Christine Lahti

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

— Christine Lahti

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

— Christine Lahti

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

— 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…

— Christine Lahti

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

— Christine Lahti

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

— Christine Lahti

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

— Christine Lahti

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one…

— Christine Lahti

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not…

— Christine Lahti

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

— Christine Lahti

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting…

— Christine Lahti

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I…

— Christine Lahti

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

— Christine Lahti

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

— Christine Lahti

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and…

— Christine Lahti

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

— Christine Lahti

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

— Christine Lahti