Top 100 Witherspoon Quotes
#1. I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.
Jenna Dewan
#2. I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.
Brittany Snow
#3. I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.
Phoebe Tonkin
#4. While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.
Jessica Valenti
#5. Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.
Don Bluth
#6. I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
Dakota Fanning
#7. When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.
Elizabeth Banks
#8. I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
Olivia Holt
#9. I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.
Fred Savage
#10. Brittany Murphy ... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
Jackie Collins
#11. Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
Roger Ebert
#12. Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#13. I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
Jessica Simpson
#14. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#15. My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
Olivia Holt
#16. I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
Brittany Snow
#17. I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
Gregg Harper
#18. If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.
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#19. 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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#20. Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.
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#21. I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.
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#23. It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
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#36. More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.
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#37. I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
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#38. I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,
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#39. Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#47. Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he's very smart.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
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#52. 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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#53. I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.
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#54. I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
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#55. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
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#56. Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
#57. I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.
Reese Witherspoon
#58. 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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#59. I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.
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#60. If you are not yelling at your kids,you are not spending enough time with them.
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#61. Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.
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#62. 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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#63. I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
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#64. The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
John Witherspoon
#65. That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.
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#66. I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.
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#67. 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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#68. I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing.
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#70. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?
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#76. 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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#79. 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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#81. 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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#82. We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
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#83. To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.
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#84. Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false.
John Witherspoon
#85. Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.
Tim Witherspoon
#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.
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#89. 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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#90. I love to sing around the house and in the car, but my daughter hates it.
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#91. If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!
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#94. I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.
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#95. 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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#96. I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.
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#97. 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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#99. 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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#100. I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
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