Katherine Heigl famous quotes

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Believe #Energy #Firsts

The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Vacuums #Want #Unexpected

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Gratitude #Live Life #Humility

My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #New York #Children

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Adoption #My Family #Natural

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Smoking #Quitting #Habit

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Girl #Yogurt #Faces

I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Hair #Way #Shakes

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Twenties #Looks

I like going on location for films.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Location #Film

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mistake #Kind #Appearance

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Digging #Want #Graves

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Gestures #Bigs

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
-- Katherine Heigl

#People #Personality #Different

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!
-- Katherine Heigl

#Doubt #Looks #Ankles

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Growing Up #Thinking #Way

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Years #Understanding

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Shy #Moments

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Want #My Family

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Moving #Firsts #Kind

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Wife #Break #Very Good

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Watches #Focused

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.
-- Katherine Heigl

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Years

Now Ive got this moniker that Im the foot-in-mouth gal, and I keep thinking, In what way? Because I said something you dont agree with? Because I said something you dont like? Im just telling you my opinion. I hate the idea that I cant be honest about how I feel about things because its going to piss somebody off who feels differently. That seems preposterous to me.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Hate #Thinking #Ideas

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Guy #Kind #Retarded

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Guy #Obvious

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Children #Matter

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Children #Believe #Play

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Ideas #House

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Taken #Honest #Easy

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Burning #Bras #Opinionated

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Eccentric #Rehab #Boring

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Careers #Important

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Secret #Agents #Sneaky

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Husband #Doors #Scare

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
-- Katherine Heigl

#People #Tendencies #Pleasers

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Good Friend #People

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Grateful #Focus

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mistake #Believe #Mean

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Grateful #Be Grateful #Wonderful

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Hurt #Feelings #Honest

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
-- Katherine Heigl

#Stupid #Kids #Fighting

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Girl #Thinking #Lame

I don't have a lot of discipline.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Discipline

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
-- Katherine Heigl

#Reality #Way #Plans

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Children #Home

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Careers #Important #Trying

I've had paranoid panic attacks.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Panic Attacks #Panic #Paranoid

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Chaotic

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!
-- Katherine Heigl

#Work Out #Lazy #Too Much

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Children #Fun #Ideas

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Want #Moments #Enjoy

I pride myself on being kind.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Pride #Be Kind #Kind

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Realising

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Exciting

I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Feet #Ankles #Weak

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Grateful #Opportunity #Careers

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Children #Children Love

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Character #Stories #Care

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Hands #Play

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Feelings #Want

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Looks #Way #Satisfied

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Fun #Thinking #Other Worlds

I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #People #Balls

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Writing #Numbers #Healthy

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mom #Wake Up #Going With The Flow

I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Attention #Centre Of Attention

I'm terrible with patience.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Patience #Terrible

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Workout #Hate #Weekend

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.
-- Katherine Heigl

#People #Magazines #Exhausted

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Eye #Thinking #People

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Years #Parent #Three

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
-- Katherine Heigl

#People

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Hate #Actors

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Berries #Proud #Lips

I'm not terribly sentimental.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Sentimental

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Hands #Mind #Able

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Luck #Midnight

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Kissing #Mouths #Tongue

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!
-- Katherine Heigl

#Men #Hot #Today

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Bruises #Persons

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Hollywood #Labels #Likes

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Race #Giving #Needs

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Kids #Sacrifice #Night

The world is still very bigoted.
-- Katherine Heigl

#World #Stills

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Debate #Talkers

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Predictability

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Sick #Trying #Guessing

I'm not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!
-- Katherine Heigl

#Clothes #Perfect #Helping

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mom #Thinking #Perspective

I'm grateful people think I'm beautiful or sexy, and I suppose it's better than the alternative, but I do try to fight it a bit so it's not all people see me as. And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Beautiful #Sexy #Grateful

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Drinking #Smoking #Church

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Children #Years #Months

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Children #My Children

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Mother #Advice #Source