Christine Lahti Quotes

Christine Lahti — American Actress born on April 04, 1950,

Christine Ann Lahti is an American actress and film director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All, Housekeeping, Running on Empty, and Miss Firecracker. For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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.

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