Ordered by second name:

Joan Allen

Actress (The Crisol, Pleasantville)

“I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingénue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that.”

Kirstie Alley

Actress

“I hate movie hours. I don’t know any women that look good at 6 in the morning. I take that back. Maybe Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Jennifer Aniston

Actress

During an interview, Brad Pitt said he would let jennifer sleep with Steven Tyler if there was ever an oppurtunity. On her part, Jennifer said that if she were to pick someone who Brad Pitt can sleep with, it would be Michelle Pfeiffer |  “On the flip side there’s Michelle Pfeiffer. He can have that one. you couldn’t say no to Michelle Pfeiffer.

Giorgio Armani

Friend and Fashion Designer

Town & Country – September, 2004 | When he offered to design her Oscar outfit in March 1990 | “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.”

“She is one of those absolute pure beauties who mirrors my image of elegance, sophistication and understatement.”

“Michelle wears my clothes with such elegance, grace and natural confidence. All eyes are upon her when she walks down any red carpet because of her innate sense of being. She is always in harmony with herself and that shows. This perfectly mirrors my philosophy on design and style –’less is more’– and the evolution of a look rather than something radically different on every occasion. Michelle embodies the woman who inspires my work: feminine, understated and elegant yet also mysterious, confident and provocative.”

Darren Aronofsky

Actor

When he was aske about the best Batman | “For me, i would say No. 2 (Batman Returns). I liked Michelle Pfeiffer and the Penguin. I likes that whole tone. I think Tim Burton’s great.”

Jules Asner

E! News reporter

“Michelle Pfeiffer is the only person I’ve interviewed who made me forget my question. I was just looking at her —speechless.  She’s THAT beautiful.”

Jon Avnet

Director of Up Close and Personal

“This is the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever met in my entire life.”

Mischa Barton

Actress – The O.C.

“My favorites are Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – male actors who have screen presence. I also look up to people like Gwyneth Paltrow and Michelle Pfeiffer. Working with people with a lot of acting experience is what I look forward to.”

Kathy Bates

Actress – Co-star in Personal Effects and Chéri

“When I started doing publicity for ‘Misery’, the first question was ‘Gee you don’t look like Michelle Pfeiffer.’ I look at Michelle Pfeiffer and think, ‘there’s a beautiful woman who’s fighting to play a wide variety of roles. She’s an actor like I am and wants to play as many different kinds of roles as she can. I think she did an amazing turn in ‘A Thousand Acres.’”

Kate Beckinsale

Actress

“Because I have a thing for black latex. I do, I know we all do. I think Michelle Pfeiffer was such an awesome Catwoman, I’d be really intimidated to get into that suit after she filled it. But I don’t know if my husband [Underworld director Len Wiseman] would talk to me if I were to get it and I turned it down. I’d have to take it into very heavy consideration.”

Patricia Birch

Director of Grease 2 – 1982

Premiere – September, 1988 | During Grease 2 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.”

Paul Bogart

Director of Natica Jackson (Telefilm – 1987)

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.”

Jon Bon Jovi

Singer

“My first crushes were Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer. And when Richie (Bon Jovi guitarist) was going out with Cher, I had a shot with Michelle Pfeiffer- or at least her said i did.”

Consolata Boyle

Costume designer in Chéri (2008)

Catwalk Queen – May 9, 2009 | “Michelle was a joy to work with and a true professional, it also helped that she has a great figure for all the costumes!”

Martin Bregman

Producer of Scarface (1983) and Sweet Liberty (1986)

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.”

Jeff Bridges

Actor | Co-star in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

InStyle – July, 2009 | “She’s a wonderful combination of beauty, mystery and funk. The funk factor is her ordinariness—the surfer girl from Orange County. These elements are mixed with her courage to do things she is frightened of and the talent to make us believe.”

Pierce Brosnan

Actor

Asked about whom he would recommend for the female lead in the next Bond film | I would love Michelle Pfeiffer for the next Bond film — or any film I do. I hope there’s at least one film with Pfeiffer in my future.

Charisma Carpenter

Actress (Buffy and Angel)

“I like Michelle Pfeiffer’s career choices. I saw her at a party once and followed her around, waiting for an oppurtunity to say something.”

David Carradine

Actor (KunFu and Kill Bill)

“I remember seeing Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 and thinking she was going to be huge.”

Jim Carrey

Actor

His speech when received his award for Comedian of the year at ShoWest 1995 | “This has been an incredible year for me and you guys made it possible. We both made a great deal of money together… That’s why I’m announcing that I’m retiring from the world of feature films. Obviously I have peaked and I would be a fool to try to keep up this kind of pace. This is a year when all my dreams came true… except for the Michelle Pfeiffer thing.”

Kim Cattrall

Actress | Sex and the City

Newsweek | “There were no roles for 40-year-olds, and if there was, it went to Michelle Pfeiffer. I love Michelle, but what about the rest of us?”

Geraldine Chaplin

Co-star in The Age of Innocence (1993)

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.”

David Charvet

Actor (Baywatch)

When he was asked about his dream date |  “Michelle Pfeiffer. She’s honest looking, bright, beautiful and she seems like a really nice person. There’s not too many great actresses, but she’s one of them. She’s not too obvious or revealing.”

Cher

Close friend and co-star in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

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”.

“She’s the clumsiest woman I’ve ever met. She has this angelic face, and then she gets up and wobbles across the room like a duck, so it makes you laugh… I love her, but it’s almost impossible to get close to her. She’s just very, very private.”

Usa Today – February 2, 2008 | About being a public person | “I find that men are intimidated by who they think I am. One night, Michelle Pfeiffer and I wanted to go out dancing, so we went to a club, sat down, and no one asked us to dance. I thought, this is crazy. Two of my gay friends came in and we danced with them for an hour. You have this baggage that comes with your image.”

Carole Clooney

One of Michelle’s teachers at the High School years

Premiere – September, 1988 | “I saw her as this sunshine surfer beach girl. She was more out of the class than in.”

George Clooney

Co-star in One Fine Day (1996)

When was asked about his definition of the ideal woman | “There is no such entity as the ideal women. The ideal woman is a mixture. she’s got Nicole Kidman’s laugh, Julia Robert’s string character, Jennifer Lopez strong character and body, and Michelle Pfeiffer’s face. To me Michelle is the quintessence of beauty. Is that not a beautiful combination?”

When he was asked about if Michelle was ever his fantasy at some point | “Well, I dated her sister so I can’t really comment on that. I’d go straight to hell for that. She’s every man’s fantasy. I mean, it’s not just that she’s beautiful, she’s great at what she does.”

InStyle – July, 2009 | “She is so beautiful you might forget what a talented actress she is … but then you watch Married to the Mob or The Fabulous Baker Boys or a dozen other films, and you remember that she’s a world-class actor… who just happens to be beautiful.”

Glenn Close

Co-star in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

During the promotion of “The House of the Spirits”. The interview also included Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder:
Interviewer: Who are the sexiest actresses?
Close: Vanesssa redgrave
Ryder: She is pretty damn sexy. Judy Davis.
Close: Michelle

Holly Marie Combs

Actress (Charmed)

When she was asked if she has ever been starstruck by a celebrity | “Yes. Michelle Pfeiffer, for one, because she was married to David Kelley the last couple of years of Picket Fences. I would just stand there in awe.”

Billy Crudup

Actor (“Big Fish”)

When was asked for his favourite movie monster | “I’m going to go with Michelle Pfeiffer in ‘The Witches of Eastwick’. Witches are hot, and Michelle Pfeiffer’s hot.”

Stacey Dash

Co-star in ‘I Could Never Be Your Woman’

Asked about which lead us to plastic surgery and if should her | I have really small breasts and the thought has crossed my mind to get them done… Then there’s also a little voice that says,’No. Don’t make it about that.’ One of my idols is Michelle Pfeiffer. I don’t see big boobs on her.

Antonio Delli

Latin-american actor of soaps

El Universal – January 14, 2010 | Asked about whom he would like to ask an autograph |  “To Michelle Pfeiffer, to Meryl Streep, to Robert De Niro, to Madonna, to Julianne Moore and to Fernando Gómez.”

Jonathan Demme

Director of Married to the Mob (1988)

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.’”

Denise Di Novi

Producer of Batman Returns (1992)

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?”

Cameron Diaz

Actress

About Michelle performance in Grease 2 | “I just loves the way Michelle climbs up that ladder.”

Regarding the actors that she most admired growing up | “I loved Michelle Pfeiffer and i still do. But i wasn’t a huge movie buff when i was a kid. I didn’t go to movies a lot.”

Stephen Dorff

Actor

Asked for of he had ever a crush on a particular actress | Growing up, I always had a crush on Michelle Pfeiffer. I still do, as amatter of fact, always. (Long sigh)… Susan Sarandon too.

“I have a big crush on Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she’s rocking. I love her in some of her older movies. i think she’s a great actress, besides being gorgeous and sexy.”

Kirsten Dunst

Actress

Asked for her biggest influeneces as an actress | “Jodie Foster, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Drew Barrymore. All incredible women and incredible actresses.”

“Hollywood wants the next young thing, hot thing, but i think if you are a good actress like Michelle Pfeiffer or someone like that, then you’ll have a long career.”

Zac Efron

Actor | Hairspray (2007)

20minutos – April 28, 2009 | Asked about if he had ever tried to to seduce an older woman who could be her mother in his real life (the question is regarding his role in the movie “17 Again”) | “I think that I couldn’t open my mouth if I’m in front of Angelina Jolie some day. I remember that one day I grabbed Michelle Pfeiffer round the waist and it was one of the more beautiful experiences of my life. I was near faint.”

Shannon Elizabeth

Actress – ‘American Pie’

“I love Michelle Pfeiffer. I’ve loved her since i was a kid.”

“I really admire Michelle Pfeiffer and Cameron Diaz, because they’re not afraid of unglamourous parts. They don’t always play sex kittens, and neither will I.”

Asked for if she could invite any three guests from any time in history to dinner at her house | Gary Oldman because he’s the kind of actor I strive to be, he’s amazing to watch. And I’d say Michelle Pfeiffer because she’s also the kind of actress I really admire. And Steven Spielberg.

Rupert Everett

Actor – Co-star in Stardust (2007) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

InStyle – July, 2009 | “Michelle is like a star from the ’20s—distant and ethereal, like a beautiful, flickering image. In a way, she’s too perfect for now. She starts work 10 hours before everyone else because she’s on the bike or the Stairmaster at 3 A.M. She has such discipline. She’s very serious about getting the job done.”

Carrie Fisher

Actress

When she was asked for if her appearance affected her career | “If I were prettier, I would have had a bigger acting career – it’s easier, damn it, if you look like Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Janet Fitch

Best-selling author | White Oleander

Zap2it – October, 2002 – Toronto Film Festival | About the performance of Pfeiffer in White Oleander | “I think that Michelle’s performance truly breathed life into the character I wrote”

Colin Firth

Actor (Bridget Jones’ Diary) and Michelle’s co-star in A Thousand Acres (1997)

“There’s this idea that if you like football, you also like Dire Straits and wine. And if you don’t like either, you must be a pacificst vegetraian who is oblivious to the charms of Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Harrison Ford

Co-star in What Lies Benath (2000)

When he was asked about why he chosed to play a bad guy in What Lies Beneath | “I just thought, ‘Well, why not?’ I know it is a first but I have always wanted to work with Michelle. She is such a professional and I love all her work. People don’t expect it of me but that is up to them. I just couldn’t resist the opportunity.”

US Weekly – July, 2000 | “What can I say about her? She’s extraordinarily talented-and not bad to look at.”

Claire Forlani

Actress (Meet Joe Black)

When she asked about if she had a beauty role model growing up | “I remember seeing Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 and thinking she was just ‘it.’”

Stephen Frears

Director of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Chéri (2008)

Before the filming of Dangerous Liaisons in 1988 | “I remember when Michelle Pfeiffer’s name was suggested for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and I flew to California and there was a plan to meet at a certain time. She rang me up and said, “I can’t come. I’m not feeling well,” or something like that. I said, “Well, I’ve come 3,000 miles, so you’d jolly well better come.” I thought, “Oh, goodness…” I didn’t really know anything about her. I hadn’t really seen her in any films and I thought, “Well, actually, this is a quite sophisticated play. This woman might well be rather intimidated by this.”
I remember her reading. I made her read – and she read very, very badly – with the writer, but there was a moment when she was on the floor looking up at him and you could just see that men fell in love with her. You could see absolutely the whole thing laid out, really.
Then I remember watching a reel from Married to the Mob and realizing that the woman was absolutely brilliant and that I’d been utterly ridiculous in imagining that she would be out of her depth. So there was something that made me understand why you would cast that woman – because in the end it’s a story about a man who falls in love with a woman. I could see why you would fall in love with her. When you look in her eyes, you can see that look. So I would say that it’s observation rather than whether she can improvise well or do whatever it is other people do. So I would reduce it to a purely human quality.”

Production Notes – Directing Chéri | “Pfeiffer upsets you. She was upsetting in Dangerous Liaisons – I knew that as soon as I met her – and she’s upsetting in this. She’s unnerving, as though being that beautiful contains its own tragic quality.”

The Hollywood Reporter – February, 2009 | Asked for how was working with Pfeiffer again, in Chéri | “She’s the real thing. She’s very powerful and has an unexpected power. It has something to do with her beauty but also who she is. I was doing a wide shot with her and just thought how extraordinary it was her being that powerful. She’s such a tiny little thing and she can hold the screen so effortlessly. She is very effective and very potent in rather unexpected ways.”

Rupert Friend

Actor (Co-star in Chéri)

Feelings before meeting Michelle | “It was terrifying, I mean, this is Catwoman we’re talking about here.”

Press Association – May 7, 2009 | Nervous before shooting Chéri | “When you learn that you are going to be playing opposite one of the best actresses in the world, and then the supporting cast with Kathy Bates and Felicity Jones is also incredibly exciting. So I was simultaneously thrilled, excited and very frightened. It’s like taking your clothes off in public, it’s very humiliating in some ways and yet exhilarating in other ways.”

Working in Chéri | “I‘d be lying if I didn’t say it was quite frightening acting with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates but once the work started they became Madame Peloux and Léa. I had to think of them like that or I wouldn’t get out of bed every morning for shaking! But when you work with actors of that calibre, you’re galvanised into raising your game. And they were so professional and so generous with me.”

Empire Magazine – April, 2009 | “Kissing Catwoman was a boyhood dream. If you ask nicely, she can still do that tongue thing. She got such a kick out of how much joy that gave me, she did it all the time. It was great!”

OK! Magazine – May 7, 2009 | “I enjoyed it very much. I got to spend three wonderful months in France, in bed with Michelle Pfeiffer!”

On filming love scenes in Chéri | “It’s very important that you sort of have a trust and we established that very early on off screen, and it made doing the love scenes a lot more comfortable and funny, they were a lot of fun, funnier than I thought they were gonna be.”

Press Association – May 7, 2009 | About making a love story with Pfeiffer | “Well in a way I think the age is irrelevant, I think Michelle is a brilliant actress and an incredibly beautiful woman so I felt very, very lucky”

Janeane Garofalo

Actress (24)

“Hollywood has very stringent rules for the ladies. It’s not that way for guys — a romantic lead can be anywhere from Danny DeVito to John Goodman. If you’re a male. They will not allow us the same thing. I mean, Michelle Pfeiffer in Frankie & Johnnie? Susan Sarandon in White Palace? Meryl Streep as the housewife . . . it’s craziness. It’s galling to me what they expect you to accept as the imagery of the ‘plain’ person.”

Rebecca Gayheart

Actress | Beverly Hills 90210

“Not long ago I was in New York and this homeless guy asked me for some money. I said sorry and kept on walking, but then he yelled out ‘Hey you look like Michelle Pfeiffer!’ I swear I stopped in my tracks, turned around, opened my wallet and handed the guy a $20 bill. See? All a woman wants is a compliment!”

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Actress

Asked for who are her Hollywood role models | I look at people like Annette Bening or Michelle Pfeiffer, people who started in the sexier roles and have then been able to progress into the woman, into the mother, into all those other roles.

Olivia Grant

Actress | Played “Girl” Bernard in Stardust (2007)

“I have been very lucky. I rocked up to Pinewood Studios on the first day and found myself rehearsing with Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Charlie Cox. I was having to pinch myself. And then when I got back to my trailer, my mobile rang and it was Michelle’s assistant. I thought, ‘Oh God, she hates me, I’m really bad, I’m off the film.’ And she said, ‘Michelle likes your cowboy boots, can I ask where you got them from?’ So I said, ‘R Soles on the King’s Road’, and they got them for her in brown and black.”

Katherine Guinzburg

Friend and co-producer with Michelle of Pfeiffer-Guinzburg Productions

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.’ “

Melanie Griffith

Actress

About actresses being over 40 in Hollywood | Well, Michelle Pfeiffer is in her forties now, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan. Everybody in my group is over forty. So hopefully things will change. We’ve gotta push that envelope.

Deborah Harry

Blondie band

When she was asked about if her book could be turned into a movie, and then someone would be playing her onscreen, who would she like that person to be |  “Well, gee, I don’t know; I think Kirsten Dunst could be pretty good. And at one time i thought Michelle Pfeiffer, but i don’t think that would happen now.”

Ron Jeremy

Asked about what actress he think is attractive | A lot of them. Madonna. That i would like to do, right? Michelle Pfeiffer. Alanis Morrisette. So cute.

Melissa Joan Hart

Actress – Sabrina, The Teenage Witch

“I have an ultimate goal. I would like to do features and be like Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Felicity Jones

Actress | Co-star in Chéri (2009)

Press Association – May 7, 2009 | “She is amazing, she’s so cool, just totally open and very straight forward and very friendly.”

Empire – May 7, 2009 | “She’s brilliant. She is special because I think people underestimate her comic timing. She’s an incredible wit as well as being this beautiful woman and a good actress.”

Press Association – May 7, 2009 | “We had a scene with Rupert (Friend) and we all had to come back later to finish an eye line off and we were all there crouched behind the camera (together) and she is a really good sport.”

Sass Jordan

Canadian Singer

“I guess I’ve come to the conclusion that, okay, I can’t turn myself into Michelle Pfeiffer, but anything else is possible.”

Michael Hoffman

Director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) and One Fine Day (1997)

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.”

US Weekly – July, 2000 | “She has an enviable situation, at this point in her life, I think her family has become a more intriguing, creative issue than making movies.”

US Weekly – July, 2000 | “She can be stubborn, you don’t encourage her to dig her heels in.”

Adam Horovitz

Beastie Boys Band

Regarding the only way he would leave the band | “If Michelle Pfeiffer calls and says, ‘Adam, look, we need you to do this sex scene with me; you need to be my young lover.’ Well, then, I’d say, ‘Guys, I gotta cut out for a few weeks.’ They would be mad then.”

Peter Horton

Ex-husband and actor

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.”

Enrique Iglesias

Singer

When he was asked about who were his biggest movie star crushes when he were a kid | “Michelle Pfeiffer. She’s so beautiful, especially in Scarface.”

Jenna Jameson

Porn Actress

When she was asked for the sexiest non-porn movie ever made | “I love 9 1/2 weeks. But you know what always turns me on for some reason, and I don’t know why because there’s no real sex in it, was Scarface. Something about Michelle Pfeiffer in that movie made me crazy. I guess it was those low-cut dresses that she wore and her attitude… I just think she was smashing.”

Diane Keaton

Actress

“I always thought actresses who are beautiful must have more choices. But then I read that Michelle Pfeiffer and Julia Roberts–true beauties–feel that they haven’t always had that much control over their careers, either. I’m sure beauty like that brings its own set of problems. I’ve always felt fairly plain.”

David E. Kelley

Producer and Her husband

Vanity Fair – September, 1993 | During his engagement with Michelle | “She’s the world’s best girlfriend-she’s even started going to hockey games”

“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!”

Bill Kenwright

Producer of Chéri (2008)

About the performance of Pfeiffer in Chéri | “Michelle took a chance doing this. The character could be played in several ways but Michelle’s subtlety and vulnerability is astonishing.”

Steve Kloves

Director of The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

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.”

“Michelle has something very rare on the screen, and that’s mystery. At the same time, there’s raw quality that comes through in her performance. It’s a unique combination”

Ashton Kutcher

Co-star in Personal Effects (2008)

“It was amazing working with Michelle Pfeiffer, I mean, she’s a three times Oscar nominated actress that when you stand across from her you know that everything you get from her is authentic.”

InStyle – July, 2009 | “Michelle is a force to be reckoned with. She brings true beauty and absolute gravity to every role she plays. She is a generous acting partner and a gift to any story that will have her be its voice.”

Nick Lachey

Actor

Asked for his celebrity crush | Michelle Pfeiffer

John LaRocca

Her ex-Agent

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.”

Denis Leary

Actor | Comedian

When he was asked if he had any obssessions | “I’d say hockey. That would be my straight answer. My comedy answer would be Michelle Pfeiffer. I have a kind of secret obssession with Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Choosing his favorite female superhero | “I’ve always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots – I’m pretty good with either one.”

Katharine Leis

Actress

“As far as famous actors, my two favourites are Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp. The roles they choose very like night and day, and neither of them are afraid to play very non-glamourous roles. I’ve never seen either of them give a bad performance, and I think they are models of what happens when talent and dedication are applied in heavy amounts.”

Juliette Lewis

Actress

“I think I have the ability to appear ugly or attractive. Someone like Michelle Pfeiffer can’t be ugly.”

Ed Limato

Her ex-Agent

Vanity Fair – September, 1993 | “Michelle has always been a star on her merit rather than on her box office”

Robert Loggia

Actor | Co-star in Scarface (1983)

Entertainment Weekly – October, 2006 | Asked about if Michelle Pfeiffer was nervous in her first true dramatic role as Elvira, working opposite himself and Al Pacino | “No. When she came down that elevator [in Elvira's first scene] in that goddamn tight dress and slinked across to us, and the way [Elvira] sniffed coke off her pinky fingernail…For Christ’s sakes, Michelle owned it! They were lucky to have her; they should kiss her ass in Macy’s window today!”

Cindy Margolis

Actress and model

When she was asked about her role models |  “My mom. She’s my best friend and my biggest supporter. My favorite actress is Michelle Pfeiffer. She is so beautiful, isn’t she?”

Garry Marshall

Director of Frankie & Johnny (1991)

“Michelle has no godess time, except when she’s on the screen. And then she’s home. I’ve worked with lot of stars, and she’s different. She doesn’t get obsessed with hair and makeup. She’s not a happy girl on the set — she’s very prepared, very serious.”

About Michelle’s turned down parts | “She never says, ‘I shoulda.’ She doesn’t dwell.”

Ricky Martin

Singer

Asked about his dream girl | “Aside from my big buddy Madonna, my dream girl would be a mixture of Michelle Pfeiffer and Jennifer Lopez.”

Nichola McAuliffe

Actress | Chéri (2009)

Daily Mail – April 25, 2009 | During the filming set of Chéri | During a break, I said to Pfeiffer: ‘Oh, I do admire you.’ Michelle looked down, modestly. ‘No, I do,’ I continued. ‘After all, you’ve not had my advantages. It can’t have been easy for you, being so plain and all.’ There was a split-second when one of the most beautiful women on Earth looked at the gargoyle in front of her before she fell about laughing.”

Dylan McDermott

Actor

May, 2009 | “When I was a struggling actor in New York, I once waited on Michelle Pfeiffer. Years later I ended up buying her house.”

Bruce McGill

Co-star in Delta House (Tv-series – 1979) and Into The Night (1985)

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.”

People Weekly – July,1992 | After a few years | “I kinda feel like Michelle is torn about stardom. Even when we were together, there was a part of her that would have liked to be on some dusty old ranch in New Mexico. I recently ran into her at an L.A. eatery, she seems a little world weary. That’s unfortunate. She should be enjoying it while it’s happening.”

Ryan Merriman

Actor | Michelle’s son in The Deep End of the Ocean (1998)

“She’s like this primo big huge star, and just the nicest person.”

About she also won him respect among his friends | “They were like, ‘Yo, man, did you kiss her?’” “And I was like, ‘No! Are you crazy?’” Of course not. That’s something a WB kid would do”

George Miller

Director of The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

About Michelle’s hesitancy around committing to certain projects (after Pfeiffer turned down ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ | “I think one of the problems has been the choices she has made. She’s a hesitant decider- she tends to withdraw when she get’s scared. And what we really ought to be doing is what scares us most.”

Carrie Ann Moss

Actress

During an interview the interviewer asked: Who do you think was the best Batman?
Moss: I’m not gonna answer that question, but i’ll tell you who I thought was the best character in all the Batmans… oh, but now i’m afraid I’m thinking of the wrong movie, and if I am then I’m just a big geek… Michelle Pfeiffer.”
Interviewer: Oh yeah, yeah , Catwoman.
Moss: Catwoman. She was amazing. She’s my favourite character in those movies.
Interviewer: You could have done the role better, I think. And I’m not just saying that.
Moss: No way. She rocked. i think she shouls have got an Oscar for that. I thought she was so good.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Autor of The Deep End of the Ocean (1998)

People Weekly – May, 1999 | “She has become more luminous the more mature she has become.”

Julie Newmar

Actress and former Catwoman in television

March, 2004 | About Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman | “Splendid. Great actress. She was great with a whip”

When asked about Michelle’s performance as Catwoman | “Michelle Pfeiffer can do no wrong”

On the dvd documentary about Catwoman – about Michelle Pfeiffer | “Loved her (as catwoman).  She’s certainly one of the greatest actresses of her day.”

On the dvd documentary about Catwoman – about Batman Returns movie | “It’s fabulous! I’m surprised they waited until the second (movie). Nothing could please me then them having chosen Michelle. Michelle Pfeiffer is unquestionably the best talent that’s hit Hollywood in 20 or more years, since Streisand. I’m absolutely thrilled.”

Jason Newsted

Metallica band

His favorite actresses | Ursula Andress, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kim Basinger.

Jack Nicholson

Co-star in The Whitches of Eastwick (1987)

“She’s a good egg, I’m crazy about her… You couldn’t really say Michelle is glacial, but there’s obviously something oscillating beneath the surface there. Her first look at people is ‘Yeah, well, what do you want?’ It’s a form of protection because she’s very sensitive.”

Kelly Packard

Actress – Baywatch

“I’m probbaly the most star-struck person you will ever meet. Let me put it this way: If I ever meet Michelle Pfeiffer, I would probably pass out.”

Audrina Patridge

Actress – MTV show The Hills

JustJared.com – September 1, 2009 | Asked for what actresses she aspires to be | “I love Michelle Pfeiffer – she’s one of my favorites! She’s done everything from Grease to a horror movie – something scary to drama, everything.”

DeDee Pfeiffer

Actress and Michelle’s sister

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.”

Richard Pfeiffer

Michelle’s father

People Weekly – July,1992 | “Aah, Michelle, you’ll end up a broken-down housewife with a kid on each hip.”

Natalie Portman

Actress

Interview magazine, 1996 | “There’s only three actresses i think are really gorgeous. Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts, and Tyra Banks. I don’t think Demi Moore is so beautiful and look at her. She’s making more money than any other actress in Hollywood right now.”

Rob Reiner

Director of The Story of Us (1999)

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.”

“She’s in the pantheon of great movie actresses of all time- Hepburn, Stanwyck, she’s right up there. She’s capable of anything: She can be funny, she can do drama. Stunning beauty and exquisite talent- it’s rare to get that package; you can count those actresses on the fingers of one hand. And you rarely get an actor who’s a creative partner. Michelle had wonderful suggestions, not only about her own role, but the overall film, about the tone of the scene, what it’s really about- a director’s take on things. Ultimately, if she wanted to, she’d make a really fine director.”

Simon Rex

Actor

Asked for if he could act with any leading lady, who would it be | Michelle pfeiffer, just because I’ve always had a crush on her. I’m in a different age range obviously, but I’d love to act with her. for crying out loud, she was in Scarface. Maybe I could play her young love.

Christina Ricci

Actress

“I heard they want to bring Catwoman into the next one. I so loved Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance in the original one, and I think if they want someone to play the lead role – it’s her. However, if they’re looking for a younger Catwoman, someone more around Christian’s (Bale) age – I’m available!”

Denise Richards

Actress

When she was asked what’s coming up for her next | “Well, right now I’m trying to find a romantic comedy, or a really mice period piece. I’m just looking at scripts, and there are a couple of things we’re trying to figure out. I haven’t committed to an thing at this point. I would love to work with Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange or Michelle Pfeiffer. They’ve all got really great careers. They all seem like very classy women, have made great choices and they’re amazing actresses. I’ve seen interviews with them, and they seem very professional.”

Joan Rivers

Actess

“Beauty is based on youth and on a certain look. When you’re old, you’re invisible. No matter how they lie to us and tell us Barbra Streisand is beautiful, if you woke up without her enormous talent would you rather look like her or Michelle Pfeiffer?”

Paul Rudd

Co-star in I Could Never Be Your Woman

Interview – August, 2007 | Director Jude Apatow interviewed him and asked for if being Michelle Pfeiffer as his leading lady in “I Could…” had created any problems with his wife |  “It didn’t at all. In fact, the very first day, I had this scene where I was supposed to be making out with Michelle Pfieffer. I told my wife, “Look. I want you to know that I am going to be making out with Michelle Pfeiffer today, and I will be thinking about… Michelle Pfeiffer.” My wife’s response was that when she makes out with me she also thinks about Michelle Pfeiffer. What’s really embarrassing is that I worked with Jon Lovitz on this movie, and I told him that story, and he told Michelle Pfeiffer “

Mercedes Ruehl

Co-star in Married to the Mob (1988)

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.”

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.”

Winona Ryder

Co-star in The Age of Innocence (1993)

“While we were filming The Age of Innocence, I was breaking up with Johnny Depp & having a rough time. She really took me under her wing & took care of me. It did take a while to get to know her but I respect that. I’ve had actresses call me & say, ‘We’re both famous, let’s hang out.’ Michelle isn’t like that.”

During an interview, asked for describing her female co-stars: On Meryl Streep she said: “the most beautiful woman in the world.” Then she was asked to describe Michelle in which she said, “Oh God,! I wish I waited before declaring Meryl as the most beautiful woman!”, after a pause, she says: “Exquisite.”

Rick Savage

Def Leppard band

When he was asked about if he had famous women whom he’d put on a pedestal | “I’ve always had a soft spot for Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she’s wonderful. And rene Russo also. They’re just actresses. When i was a kid, Sophia Loren and Raquek Welch.”

Martin Scorsese

Director of The Age of Innocence (1993)

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. “

J.C. | Joshua Scott Chasez

N’Sync Band

His celebrity crushes | “Michelle Pfeiffer and Naomi Campbell. I like all sorts of girls but my favorites would be Naomi Campbell because she’s absolutely beautiful, and I’m pretty keen on Michelle Pfeiffer-she’s gorgeous. I especially liked her as catwoman.”

Matty Simmons

Executive Producer of National Lampoon’s Animal House

Interviewer: Let’s say in Christmas Vacation 2, Cousin Eddie this time goes to the lingerie counter. Who’s YOUR dream cashier?
Simmons: Oh boy, besides my wife of course! (laughing) You know, I think Michelle Pfeifer is incredibly beautiful. She’s terrific so she’d be the cashier. I remember when we gave her a screen test for Delta House. She had never acted before and she came to me after and asked me what she should do about her regular job. I asked her what she did and she said she worked at a checkout counter at a supermarket. I told her that she was out of the grocery business forever. (laughs)

Jessica Stam

Model

Style.com – December, 2009 | “I think she’s stunning. And she looks good with absolutely no makeup on, which is the sign of true beauty.”

Fisher Stevens

Ex-boyfriend and actor

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.”

Sally Fisher

Fisher Stevens’s mom

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.”

Meryl Streep

Actress

“It’s not fair when someone like Rick Moranis (honey I shrunk the kids) is making more money than Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Alison Sweeney

Actress (“Days of Our Lives”)

“I am a fan of Katherine Hepburn and I love Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Quentin Tarantino

Director

Asked for if  his sudden fame had changed the way women regard him, if rock star directors had groupies |  Even before ‘Pulp Fiction’, I was discovering how cool it is to be a director. When I started going on the film festival circuit, I was getting laid all the time. I’d never been out of the country before, and not only was I getting laid, I was getting laid by foreign chicks. When I wasn’t getting laid I’d find myself making out with some Italian girl who was the spitting image of Michelle Pfeiffer.

Charlize Theron

Actress

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…”

Emma Thompson

Actress

The Advocate – September 19, 1995 | When she was asked about if she ever play someone gay, who would she like to be in love with | “Oh, God, well, lots of women, becaus I love women so much. I think that because of my masculinity—I would probably put myself with someone very feminine like Michelle Pfeiffer. Actually I find Michelle fantasically attractive. I’m always kind of rushing up to her and kissing her on the mouth because she’s so delicious. She’s soooo delicious.”

“Some people, whatever you do, they’re always going to look beautiful. You just can’t make Tom Cruise or Michelle Pfeiffer or Julia Roberts look plain.”

Robert Towne

Director of Tequila Sunrise (1988)

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.”

Tracey Ullman

Actress and Michelle’s co-star in ‘I Could Never Be Your Woman’

“I get sent the b*tch-with-a-gun roles. For some of the juicier leading roles, you need sex appeal, and I ain’t Michelle Pfeiffer.”

Amber Valletta

Model and Co-star in What Lies Beneath (2000)

US Weekly – July, 2000 | “I was very impressed, her kids came to the set. She took care of them. She’s a mom. Though she’s got a job that puts her in the public eye, she didn’t let it change the fact that she’s a real person.”

Jean Claude Van Damme

Actor

“Michelle Pfeiffer has a striking look- a great combination of beauty and sex appeal. She’s in the league of such sensual beauties ad Sophia Loern, Raquel Welch and Gina Lollobridgida.”

Tony Vrab

Michelle’s theater classmate

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.”

Ray Walston

Actor | Picket Fences

Asked about if he had ever met David Kelley’s wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, and if so what did he think of her | One time. And I fell in love with her. It was at the Screen Actor’s Guild award show, and I was struck by the beauty of that woman.

Sela Ward

Actress

“Unless you’re Meryl Streep, Michelle Pfeiffer or Sharon Stone who all have proven themselves in their thirties, there’s no work. So we turn to television.”

Stella Warren

When was asked about her icons | “Michelle Pfeiffer. I love Mel Gibson. He’s both a man’s man and a woman’s man.”

Denzel Washington

Actor

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.”

Bruce Willis

Co-star in The Story of Us (1999)

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”

Adrian Zmed

Co-star in Grease 2 (1982)

Suburban Chicago News - January 9, 2009 | “I ran into Michelle  a year ago, and it was like not a week had passed.”

Robert Zemeckis

Director of What Lies Beneath (2000)

US Weekly – July, 2000 | “Up till now, she hasn’t done this type of cinematic, edgy, visual film-which can be intimidating until you get used to all the high-tech cameras and complex camera moves, but Michelle did everything I asked, no matter how complicated, and that’s a real film actress.”

Other Closed Friends

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.”