Top 100 Andie MacDowell Quotes
#2. You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are.
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#3. Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.
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#4. I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.
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#5. In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.
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#6. Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?
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#7. I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
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#8. I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
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#11. I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.
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#12. When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
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#13. I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.
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#14. I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.
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#16. Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
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#17. The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.
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#18. With all that's going on in our lives and the world, reducing stress is important, and it's a factor in heart health.
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#20. As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.
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#23. Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'
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#24. I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.
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#25. I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.
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#26. I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.
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#27. My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
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#28. How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.
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#29. Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist,
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#30. My girls have been a great support to me. I come to them when I need to make a decision; they love to watch me work.
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#31. I remember what I was like as a teenager, with an enormous amount of energy and hormones. You have to be able to release it, and dancing is really an innocent way.
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#32. It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.
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#33. I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.
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#34. I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.
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#36. There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.
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#37. I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.
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#38. I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.
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#39. During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.
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#40. I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
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#43. Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
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#44. I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.
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#45. I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
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#46. Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
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#47. There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.
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#48. Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.
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#49. People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.
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#50. I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show ... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!
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#51. It's helped my outlook, how I interact with people. It's made me more conscious. It's helped me be able to focus, make better decisions, think on my feet. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's my sanctuary.
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#52. I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.
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#53. The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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#54. North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.
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#55. When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
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#56. I eat healthy, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy myself. I eat ice cream and chocolate, as my metabolism is pretty fast because I work out so much.
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#57. As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.
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#58. I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.
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#59. I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
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#63. It's interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.
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#64. I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.
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#66. When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
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#68. I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
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#69. Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.
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#70. I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.
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#71. I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
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#72. Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.
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#73. I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.
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#75. When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.
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#76. My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.
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#78. I'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.
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#79. If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.
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#80. I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
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#81. I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.
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#82. Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.
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#83. I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.
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#84. I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.
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#85. There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.
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#86. I'm really not techno-savvy - that's just not my personality.
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#87. You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.
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#88. I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.
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#89. I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.
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#90. I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.
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#92. It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.
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#93. I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation.
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#95. I never dye my own hair, I don't know if I could get every spot, and I have a good bit of grey.
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#96. Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.
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#98. When you are authentic, you create a certain energy ... people want to be around you because you are unique.
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#99. I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.
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