Top 100 Macdowell Quotes
#1. I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.
Miles Teller
#2. Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.
Claudia Schiffer
#3. In London, like in conches, Mr. MacDowell or MacDowness, time could be seen. Time was stamped in stone, in iron and in marble. And it was not only the buildings; people also occupied a place in the stratified flow of decades and centuries.
Sylvia Iparraguirre
#4. Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'
Marco Rubio
#5. Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.
Jane Hirshfield
#6. When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
Andie MacDowell
#8. I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.
Andie MacDowell
#9. One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
Andie MacDowell
#10. I love 'Forrest Gump;' I like sweet, cheery, happy movies. But it has some dark moments too.
Andie MacDowell
#11. You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are.
Andie MacDowell
#12. Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.
Andie MacDowell
#13. I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.
Andie MacDowell
#14. As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.
Andie MacDowell
#15. I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.
Andie MacDowell
#16. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#17. Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?
Andie MacDowell
#18. I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.
Andie MacDowell
#19. 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!
Andie MacDowell
#20. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#22. I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.
Andie MacDowell
#23. I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
Andie MacDowell
#24. I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.
Andie MacDowell
#26. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#27. I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.
Andie MacDowell
#28. When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
Andie MacDowell
#29. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#30. I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.
Andie MacDowell
#31. I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
Andie MacDowell
#32. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#33. I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.
Andie MacDowell
#34. Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.
Andie MacDowell
#36. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#37. A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.
Andie MacDowell
#38. I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model ... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.
Andie MacDowell
#39. My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.
Andie MacDowell
#40. During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
Andie MacDowell
#41. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#42. With all that's going on in our lives and the world, reducing stress is important, and it's a factor in heart health.
Andie MacDowell
#44. As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.
Andie MacDowell
#45. It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.
Andie MacDowell
#48. I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.
Andie MacDowell
#49. 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?'
Andie MacDowell
#50. I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.
Andie MacDowell
#51. How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.
Andie MacDowell
#52. I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.
Andie MacDowell
#53. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#54. Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
Andie MacDowell
#55. I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.
Andie MacDowell
#56. I would be taught to take pride in my work, pride in my appearance and pride in my stride. No longer would I have to worry about going to hell. All I would have to worry about was how I looked.
Mary MacDowell
#57. As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.
Andie MacDowell
#58. We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.
Andie MacDowell
#59. I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
Andie MacDowell
#60. My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
Andie MacDowell
#61. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#62. My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
Andie MacDowell
#63. Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
Andie MacDowell
#64. I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
Andie MacDowell
#65. Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist,
Andie MacDowell
#67. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#68. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#69. It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.
Andie MacDowell
#71. I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.
Andie MacDowell
#72. I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.
Andie MacDowell
#73. Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.
Andie MacDowell
#74. I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
Andie MacDowell
#75. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#78. There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.
Andie MacDowell
#79. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#80. I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.
Andie MacDowell
#81. During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.
Andie MacDowell
#82. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#84. The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.
Andie MacDowell
#86. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#87. We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.
Andie MacDowell
#88. I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.
Andie MacDowell
#89. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#90. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#91. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#92. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#93. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#94. I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.
Andie MacDowell
#95. My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.
Andie MacDowell
#96. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#97. 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!
Andie MacDowell
#98. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#99. 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.
Andie MacDowell
#100. I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful.
Andie MacDowell
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