Reese Witherspoon Quotes

“If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing.”

— Reese Witherspoon

Confidence is everything in this business.

— Reese Witherspoon

“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!”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

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“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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“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

“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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“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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“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

“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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“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.”

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“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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“Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.”

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“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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I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

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“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.”

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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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“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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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“We're more than just our dresses.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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

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

“I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,”

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“Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.”

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“No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.”

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“I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.”

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“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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“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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“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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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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“If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!”

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“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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“I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.”

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“But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.”

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“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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“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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“One honest voice is louder than a crowd.”

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

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“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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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.

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“I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.”

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“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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“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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“People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.”

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“Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.”

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