Reese Witherspoon Quotes - Page 4

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

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

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.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

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.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing's ever gonna make sense again... You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.

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.

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.

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.

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

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.