Quotes By Selma Blair

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.

I don't wanna play Karen. I just don't. I've kind of done this.

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.