"All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom"
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The intent reads like deflection with teeth. By insisting her mind is occupied by a task no one wants to narrativize, Fiorentino asserts control over the conversation. It's a way of saying, don't mine me for headlines, don't turn my day into mythology. The extremity of "all" helps; it's not "I should probably clean", it's total mental occupancy, a deadpan overstatement that makes the banality funnier and the boundary clearer.
Subtext: power can look like refusal. In an industry that trains women to be legible - as objects of fascination, as vessels for intrigue - choosing the bathroom is choosing privacy. The bathroom is also the one room associated with what must stay off-camera: bodily mess, maintenance, the unsexy proof that a life is actually being lived. There's a gendered undertow, too. Even an acclaimed actress can be pulled back to domestic labor, and she can say it without apology.
Contextually, it lands as a wry snapshot of celebrity fatigue: the fantasy that fame exempts you from ordinary chores gets punctured in eight words, delivered with the kind of flat honesty that doubles as a punchline.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fiorentino, Linda. (2026, January 15). All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-im-thinking-about-today-is-cleaning-my-158882/
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Fiorentino, Linda. "All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-im-thinking-about-today-is-cleaning-my-158882/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-im-thinking-about-today-is-cleaning-my-158882/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.











