Reese Witherspoon Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

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."

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.

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.

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

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

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.

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.

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.

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

To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

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

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

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.

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?"