Top 100 Reese Witherspoon Quotes
#1. If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.
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#2. I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.
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#3. Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.
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#4. My husband is my biggest supporter on earth. He encourages me to put myself out in the world in ways that feel scary, and he's like, "I'm always gonna catch you. I'm always gonna be there for you." My supportive mother and family. Honey, it's such a village.
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#5. If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.
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#6. Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.
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#7. I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
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#8. No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.
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#9. I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.
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#10. Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
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#11. I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.
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#12. It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.
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#13. I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.
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#14. I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
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#15. I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,
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#16. But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.
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#17. There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
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#18. I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.
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#19. Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
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#20. My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."
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#21. Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he's very smart.
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#22. I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
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#23. I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
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#24. I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.
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#25. This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.
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#26. I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.
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#27. I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
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#28. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
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#29. I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.
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#30. I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.
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#31. I always let my husband read the script so he knows what's about to happen to his wife. When I played Cheryl Strayed in Wild, I'd get really mad about certain things, I'd say really profound things, and I'd curse out of nowhere. He'd say, "Are you you, or are you Cheryl?"
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#32. I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
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#33. That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.
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#34. I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.
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#35. To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
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#36. I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing.
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#37. Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.
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#40. I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
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#41. Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.
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#42. Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?
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#43. It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.
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#46. I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life.
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#48. Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.
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#49. To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.
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#50. You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.
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#51. My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
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#52. I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.
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#53. One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.
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#54. I love to sing around the house and in the car, but my daughter hates it.
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#55. If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!
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#56. A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.
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#57. It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
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#59. You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.
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#60. I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
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#61. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.
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#63. Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.
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#64. I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.
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#65. No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.
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#66. The truth is ... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart ... and I never really got it back.
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#67. For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.
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#68. I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.
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#69. I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.
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#70. Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.
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#71. Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.
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#72. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.
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#73. There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.
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#74. The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.
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#75. I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.
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#76. When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.
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#77. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.
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#78. I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
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#79. The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
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#80. Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
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#81. Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
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#82. Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
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#83. I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!
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#84. That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
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#86. I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.
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#87. But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
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#88. I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
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#89. You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, I'm starting to understand this.
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#90. I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
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#91. I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.
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#92. Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I'm a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you've got nothing to offer.
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#93. My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving
monogram it!
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#94. I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
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#96. You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.
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#97. I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
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#98. I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.
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#99. I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.
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#100. Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.
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