Kim Basinger Net Worth

Kim Basinger's Quotes

• I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
• I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
• I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
• My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go "God! Movie stars! Wow!" And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies and I don't ever want to change.
• You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

Interesting Facts about Kim Basinger

1. Replaced Sean Young for the role of Vicki Vale in Batman (1989).
2. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#40). [1995]
3. Her agoraphobia could keep her housebound for up to six months at a time, before she received therapy to combat it.
4. As a school child, she suffered from crippling shyness preventing her from reading aloud or answering questions in class.
5. Studied ballet from age of 3 to mid-teens.
6. Her father was an introspective, classically trained trumpeter, while mom was a flamboyant, extroverted housewife Kim describes as "Lucy-like".
7. Loved the movie My Fair Lady (1964) and the "Loverly" song in it, which prompted her dad to encourage her to enter local Junior Miss pageant and sing the song as her "talent." She didn't win, but later did succeed in national Miss Breck competition and appeared with her mother in an advertisement for the shampoo. This led to career as Ford model, then to acting.
8. In the early 1980s she had to re-teach herself how to drive after experiencing panic attacks while shopping. Enrolled in a behavior-modification program overseen by Malibu psychologist Dr. Ronald Doctor, who is interviewed with Basinger in the documentary America Undercover: Panic: A Film About Coping (2001).
9. Kim has English, and a smaller amount of German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), ancestry, as well as remote French roots. She is also often attributed as having Swedish and Cherokee Native American ancestry, but it is not clear if these lineages have been verified/documented.
10. Went to high school with Keith Strickland of the The B-52's.
11. Bought her own town, Braselton, in her home state of Georgia.
12. Daughter, with Alec Baldwin, Ireland born. [October 1995]
13. Turned down the role in Basic Instinct (1992) that later went to Sharon Stone.
14. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
15. She is a vegetarian and an animal rights supporter. She has posed for anti-fur advertisements by PETA.
16. When she reneged on her verbal agreement to star in Boxing Helena (1993) in 1993, the producers sued her for breach of contract and a jury ordered her to pay over $8 million, which ultimately forced Basinger to declare bankruptcy. Her appeal was ultimately accepted.
17. Ex-daughter-in-law of Allan Snyder and Carol M. Baldwin. Ex-sister-in-law of Sherrill Snyder, Elizabeth Keuchler, Daniel Baldwin, Elizabeth Baldwin, William Baldwin, Chynna Phillips, Jane Sasso, Stephen Baldwin and Kennya Baldwin. Ex-cousin-in-law of Joseph Baldwin. Ex-stepdaughter-in-law of Marjorie Plecher.
18. Her last name is often mispronounced, so when she appeared with husband Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live (1975) on NBC, he asked her during the opening monologue how to pronounce it. In seriousness, she answered "BAY-sing-ger," with the final syllable used with a hard "g" as in "go".
19. First "Bond Girl" (she played Domino in Never Say Never Again (1983)) to win an Oscar (won for L.A. Confidential (1997)).
20. Was a cheerleader at Athens High School.