Michelle Pfeiffer Net Worth

Michelle Pfeiffer's Quotes

• I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all just been a big sham.
• [on playing her part of Claire Spencer in What Lies Beneath (2000)] "I thought about Drew Barrymore in the first Scream (1996) - I mean, ultimately that movie was more funny than scary, but the opening sequence was quite terrifying, and she portrayed terror in a way I'd never seen an actress do."
• [on wearing her costume in Batman Returns (1992) for the first time]: "I thought to myself 'I can't move, I can't breathe, I can't think. I'm unhappy. I can't act'."
• [on cosmetic surgery] "If that nose or those jowls bother you, do it! But this epidemic of people losing sight of what looks good, the distortion that has been going on is creepy."
• I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Interesting Facts about Michelle Pfeiffer

1. Used to work in a clothing store.
2. In October 1997 she was ranked #39 in "Empire" (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
3. Born at 8:11am-PDT.
4. Had thought about looking for someone to father a child with "no strings attached," but decided to adopt instead. She adopted a daughter, Claudia Rose, born in 1993. Also that year, she married David E. Kelley, with whom she also had a son, in 1994.
5. Won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant.
6. In 1997 was voted Best Dressed Female Movie Star.
7. Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse.
8. Her name was misspelled as "Michele" in the credits of Callie & Son (1981).
9. In 1995 was ranked #3 by "Empire" magazine on its list of 00 Sexiest Stars in film history.
10. Replaced Annette Bening as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), due to the former actress' pregnancy.
11. Does her own singing in Grease 2 (1982), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Hairspray (2007).
12. In 2000 the character Catwoman/Selina Kyle, who she played in Batman Returns (1992), was voted #3 in "Empire" magazine's "69 Sexiest Movie Characters of All Time".
13. Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
14. As a teenager working as a clerk at a Vons Grocery Store in southern California in 1974, she learned to tie maraschino cherry stems in knots with her tongue.
15. Has an adopted daughter named Claudia Rose (born in 1993) and a son named John Henry (born in 1994) with husband David E. Kelley, named after David's father.
16. Accidentally cut Al Pacino with broken glass while auditioning for Scarface (1983).
17. Studied acting under Geraldine Page in a workshop at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles.
18. Her first job as a performer was playing "Alice" from Alice in Wonderland (1951) at Disneyland in the Main Street Electrical Parade in the mid-1970s.
19. There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be her.
20. Attended Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley, CA, and graduated in 1976.