Premiere - September, 1988
During Grease2 audition
"She sort of wandered in very late in the day, and she was just kind of delectable. I liked her right away. I remember there was this humongous dance audition a few days later, and she was hanging around in the background, very shy, and the only way I was able to pick her out was because she was wearing these purple boots. She didn't think she could dance, but she moved beautifully. And she could act."

Life - June, 1982
About Grease2 audition
"I liked something about her right away, she has a quirky quality you don't expect."

Life - June, 1982
During Grease2 premiere
"Every girl in America is going to want to look like Michelle this summer."

Premiere - September, 1982
"Michelle's a terrific comedienne, she's like a little racehorse. She has both a delicacy and a strong will."

Premiere - September, 1988
"Michelle was the first person we thought of. She identified very strongly with Natica, who could be bartered and exchanged like a piece of merchandise. Michelle felt she understood what it was like to be a kind of commodity."

Premiere - September, 1988
"I think, that more than any other quote-unquote beautiful actress, Michelle has been handicapped by her appearance. She has such an overwhelming face that people have tended to cast her because of the way she looks."

Premiere - September, 1988
"I have a feeling she's been in touch with her gift all along and that she's exhibited enormous patience with those of us who tend to focus first on how gorgeous she is."

Premiere - September, 1988
"I showed Stephen Frears a couple of reels of 'Married to the Mob' when he was considering Michelle for 'Dangerous Liaisons', and he was clearly under her spell. But maybe he hesitated for an instant. He said, 'You know, she's gonna be out there with John Malkovich and Glenn Close.' And I thought, but didn't say, 'They better watch out.'"

Premiere - September, 1988
"Her wit drew me to her, in Sweet Liberty, I loved the way she was able to create this movie actress who was sweet and genteel one minute and screaming on the phone the next. In Tequila, she plays a restaurateur whose calm exterior is a kind of mask; you're constantly wondering what's underneath this almost Grace Kelly-like cool."

Premiere - September, 1988
"Michelle's growth has been astonishing, I think she'll keep on amazing us."

Esquire - December, 1990
About working with Michelle at TequilaSunrise
"... of all the actresses I've worked with in Hollywood, going back a lot of years, to my earliest days, Michelle was the most difficult. Perhaps it was because she didn't really want to play the character."

Esquire - December, 1990
About working with Michelle at The Fabulous Baker Boys
"Michelle wanted to make Suzie tougher. The studio was always looking for ways to soften the character. They weren't comfortable, really, with the fact that she was, basically, a hooker. Michelle loved to appear on camera without makeup, to show the circles under the eyes."

Vanity Fair - September 1993
"I didn't recognize her from one film to the next. I wasn't really looking at Michelle Pfeiffer; I was -looking at the character in the movie. The thing that really clinched it was Married to the Mob. She had a kind of honesty in the character, and she had just the right amount of humor. She wasn't putting down the character; she wasn't making a value judgment on the character. She really was like the people I grew up with. The characters were Italians from Long Island, and here was an actress of a different type, different background, coming in and making me believe totally. That really made me sit up and take note. And then, when Dangerous Liaisons came out, I thought, She's the best we have."

Vanity Fair - September 1993
"Normally, in the films I make, people do express their feelings, but these people held everything back. The character of the Countess lived almost like a bohemian compared to the other people in the story, and Michelle can portray that sense of conflict on her face, in her eyes, but in a very subtle way. You can really imagine her sense of anguish. With a character like that, you have to be analytical, and Michelle is always questioning: 'What about this? How's that?' She's literally analyzing the scene. "

People Weekly - May, 1999
"She has become more luminous the more mature she has become."

Harper's Bazaar - October 1999
"It's very difficult to find people who can play reality-based humor, you look down the list and there's not a big selection. Frankly, I think Michelle is so beautiful, a lot of people can't see past that. But she can literally do anything."

People Weekly - May 1999
"Unbelievably beautiful."

Harper's Bazaar - October 1999
"Michelle is a thoroughbred - the Rolls Royce of actors."

People Weekly - May, 1999
"She is the Greek ideal, the closer you get the camera to her face, the more beautiful she is. It has something to do with the structural perfection of her beauty, the marble-y cool quality of it."

Esquire - December, 1990
About the choice of Michelle Pfeiffer to play Elvira in Scarface
"I forced that to happen against strenuous objections from almost everyone. But when she read the part onstage with Al Pacino, it was magic. There was such an intensity."

Source Unknoun - July, 2004
About Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman
"Michelle Pfeiffer's performance was historic, it was brilliant. I think it should stand alone as what it was, you know?"

People Weekly - July,1992
About the filming of Delta House
"Young, very green, but very willing. I never used to think she ate enough, she ate asparagus for give days and nothing else."

Premiere - September, 1988
During the set of Delta House
"Michelle was absolutely unschooled as an actress, but she was always asking the right questions, I developed a kind of paternal interest in her. She was drop-dead gorgeous, of course, and the producers put here in this tight red dress, with a padded bra. She particularly hated that, I remember. Her character was called Bombshell. She almost never got to speak a line. She was a very good sport about the whole thing, but I know it was hard on her."

Premiere - September, 1988
During the set of Into the Night
"She'd changed for the better. Without being a prima donna, she now had as much faith in her opinion of a scene as in anyone else's."

Vanity Fair - September 1993
Joking about the intimacy of Michelle Before she adopted Claudia Rose
"I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Pfeiffer confided me one day that she had a 10-year-old child stashed away somewhere that she'd never told me about".

Source Unknoun
Asked how it was to work during the Married To The Mob set with Michelle Pfeiffer
“She’s a very generous woman, and also very reserved and private. We came away as friends, and met in New York and Los Angeles many times after that. We enjoyed each other’s company.”

Source Unknoun
Smiling, recalled one funny memory, when she and Pfeiffer were at the Fountainbleu Spa in Miami Beach during the set
“I told her not to look at my feet, because I’m still self-conscious about them after having broken five toes dancing wildly in my youth, and climbing on rocks. Feet are ruled by Pisces, which is my sign. But Michelle looked anyway, and dissolved into laughter, but she survived.”

7th Málaga Spanish Film Festival - April, 2004
"In my career, the moments most frustrates were with Martin Scorsese, because I was one of the actors chosen throught our accent or physique, and Martin treated us as extras, so I felt a dirty and disgusting jealousy seeing how he worked with leading actresses like MIchelle Pfeiffer."

Harper's Bazaar - October 1999
"When we were rehearsing, I said, 'Look, you've done more of this romantic stuff than I have, How am I gonna convince people we've been together for 15 years?' so I decided to flirt with her every day-with her permission, of course."

Harper's Bazaar - October 1999
"I was truly excited to work with her. When you talk about the great screen goddesses of all time, you gotta talk about Michelle Pfeiffer. And, you know what? She turned out to be really cool"

Source Unknoun
On working with young female co-stars
"That ain't fair, really. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around."

Source Unknoun
About Michelle performance in Grease 2
"I just loves the way Michelle climbs up that ladder."

Source Unknoun - January, 2004
During Monster Promotion
"... looked up to actresses in the business, who have worked hard to break the stereotype of actresses by choosing strong, character driven roles ... actresses such as Julianne Moore and Michelle Pfeiffer have long inspired me to find roles that are challenging..."

Source Unknoun - March, 2004
About Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman
"Splendid. Great actress. She was great with a whip"

Premiere - September, 1988
"She was working at Vons down in Orange County, and she came into my office, and I said, 'Michelle, excuse me for saying this, but you're in the wrong business.'"

Premiere - September, 1988
"To have represented her during the most difficult years in her career, and then to have her leave and go on… It wasn't just that she was beautiful, she had a sense of character, a sense of family, a sense of love. She was a deep person. I got her her SAG card."

Vanity Fair- September, 1993
"Michelle has always been a star on her merit rather than on her box office"

Vanity Fair - September, 1993
During his engagement with Michelle
"She's the world's best girlfriend-she's even started going to hockey games"

Source Unknoun
"My wife and I don't work together. We made that decision from the beginning of our relationship. When we do see each other, it's all about family time!"

Vanity Fair- September, 1993
About her chidhood
"Michelle ended up being a parent to her sisters. She never had a chance to be a kid. She's a survivor, and if you're taught at a young age that you have to be a survivor to exist, those patterns are set; you don't give those things up."

Vanity Fair- September, 1993
"When I first did a scene with her, I thought, This poor girl-she's not very good!. Then, when I first directed her, I realized there was something growing in her, some sort of focus I hadn't seen up until that point. She knew something was there, but she didn't know what it was. You could just feel her groping for it. There was nothing in her world that would have exposed her to this. She may as well have been from Illinois. There was no exposure to the world of theater, to the world of film. It was purely a gut instinct she followed."

Esquire - December - 1990
"Fame is something that Michelle has never even been very curious about, I know that some actors are more in love with the idea of being an actor than in actually being an actor. Michelle is the opposite."

Vanity Fair- September, 1993
About the evolution of Michelle
"She's changed remarkably. Her career has helped define her and given her a sense of self she wouldn't have had otherwise. She found it in her soul, in her gut. Her sense of self-worth and self-confidence has blossomed. She's gone off and pulled the whole package together, and she's found out she's as smart as or smarter than most of the pseudo-intellectuals out there, especially the Hollywood ones. She knows what she can do-and she knows what the world's going to try to do to her. She's a remarkable woman."

People Weekly - July,1992
About the filming of Batman Returns (1992)
"After an exhausting day on the set, he recalls, she came home with a completely different hairstyle, depending on whom she was playing, Selina or Catwoman. It was funny."

Vanity Fair- September, 1993
About her intimate circle of persons
"She doesn't have many friends."

People Weekly- July,1992
About the relationship between Michelle and Fisher Stevens
"Fisher would not be with someone just because they're beautiful, He's with Michelle because she's wonderful inside."

Vanity Fair - September 1993
"When I met her, the glass was definitely half empty. The glass is not half full now, but it's fuller. I think Michelle sees good things in the world, but I'm not sure she sees the world as a good place. She expects the worst. She's waiting for the 'undertoad.' "

People Weekly - July,1992
"Aah, Michelle, you'll end up a broken-down housewife with a kid on each hip."

People Weekly - May,1999
"... definitely considered the prettiest in the family."

People Weekly - May,1999
"Michelle didn't know how pretty she was. She was a typical high school girl who just happened to have been gorgeous. She'd have a boyfriend, and when that boyfriend didn't work out, she'd have another one. But it wasn't like we'd have 20 guys at the door."

Town & Country - September, 2004
When he offered to design her Oscar outfit in March 1990 - when her performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys earned her an Academy Award nomination.
"I suggested a simple navy-blue silk jacket with a draped skirt. The look just worked."

Town & Country - September, 2004
"Michelle represents the best of both worlds. She's very feminine, understated and sophisticated, yet also mysterious, confident and provocative."

Premiere - September, 1988
About the only high school production she ever acted in was a daylong Christmas and performed at Fountain Valley
"She was okay, I guess, but I wouldn't say I thought she'd go out and do anything big."

Premiere - September, 1988
"I saw her as this sunshine surfer beach girl. She was more out of the class than in."

Vanity Fair - September, 1993
About the adotion of Claudia Rose
"She never does anything on a whim. She's very deliberate, and she gave this a great deal of thought. She went to Mexico for a month to study painting last fall, and she thought a lot about it, and she realized she'd always wanted to adopt a baby as well as having her own child, and she didn't necessarily want to sit around and wait for Mr. Right. She was in a position to do it, and although it was scary, she knew it was the right thing for her at that time."