Reese Witherspoon famous quotes

We’re more than just our dresses.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Dresses

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Love #Children #School

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Winning #Clothes #Awards

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Blessed #Giving #Challenges

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Jobs #Work #Careers

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Jobs #Sorry #Husband

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!
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Moving #Monograms #Sheets

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Drink #Said #Embarrassed

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Crazy #Heart #Bookstores

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#People #Use #Tables

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Love #Fun #Creativity

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Sunday #About Yourself

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Believe #Thinking #Perfection

Confidence is everything in this business.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Confidence #Business #Self Confidence

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Simple #Giving #Worry

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Kids #Yelling #Enough Time

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Children #Real #Blessed

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Kids #Cheesy #Hamburgers

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Hate #Divorce #Negativity

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Play #June #Religion

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Thinking #Lawyer

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Inspirational #Mother #Children

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Girl #Boys #Ultrasounds

It's important to do things that scare you to death!
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Life #Scare #Important

There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Laughing #People #Important

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Girl #Good Girl #Trying

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.
-- Reese Witherspoon

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Mom #Kids #Special

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Over You #Might #Firsts

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Night #Journey #Thinking

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Opinion

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Thinking #Men #Needs

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Girl #Littles #Obsessed

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Determination #Accomplishment #Coaching

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Kids #Play #Kitchen

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Thinking #Parent #Stressed

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Friendship #Girlfriend #Done

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Needs #Need Love #Deserve

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Marriage #Dog #Husband

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Fun #Thinking #Boys

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Smart #Thinking #People

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Car #House #Lovely

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#June #Trying #Sound

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Love #Musical #Film

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Car #Police #Police Officer

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Daughter #Mother #Husband

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Music #June #People

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Jobs #Want

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Real #Inspiration #Grandmother

I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Running #Love Is #People

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Fashion #Actors #Starting

I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Lucky #Share #Persons

Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Years #Everyday #Lord

This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Movement #Hollywood #Dresses

And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Song #Couple #Writing

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Character #Thinking #Two

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Memories #Way #Painful

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#June #Singing #Carter

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Giving Up #Struggle #Thinking

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Mom #Crazy #Kids

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Art #Museums #Age

I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Cute #Girl #Daughter

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Trying #Accepting #Easier

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Should #Horrible #Frightening

It definitely sometimes feels like a suit that I wish I could zip off. But I don’t feel bad about any of the things I’ve gone through, whether it’s divorce or breakups or anything like that, because that’s all part of the life journey, and I have those experiences just like anyone else. And I think it deepens what you tap into creatively.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Breakup #Divorce #Journey

Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Feel Better #Drink #Feels

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Roles #Want #Satisfaction

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Moving #Monograms

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Order #Tennessee #Louis Vuitton

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Mean #Lgbt #Gross

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.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Being Yourself #Joy #Actors

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.
-- Reese Witherspoon

#Awful