33 Reese Witherspoon Quotes

Reese Witherspoon quotes

1. I'm always endlessly surprised about the people who come into my life, who I get to collaborate with. I feel really overwhelmed by those opportunities. But it's not like I fell off the turnip truck and suddenly became who I am. I really have worked hard for it, and I have to acknowledge that. I care about what I do, and I have a sense of pride in my work. And you can never be totally settled as an actor or artist or musician. You have to keep the fire under you, because that's what makes you better.

2. You spend months and months listening to the music, absorbing, practicing, working with real musicians who worked with them and getting as much of that as you can. And then the day you start shooting, you have to throw it all away. Because, they had no self-consciousness. They were natural performers and at that time, it wasn't about how you could synthesize a voice and make it appealing, it was about the natural little hiccups and the way you related a story or wrote the soul in the words you wrote. And 90% of your popularity was your performance and your interpretation of your own song. So, once we learned it all you just have to just kind of hope it all sunk in somewhere and just let it all go, cause they just had incredible confidence.

3. And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.

4. 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.

5. But listen, I'm 29 years old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.

6. Confidence is everything in this business.

7. I cook a lot, almost every night.

8. 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.

9. I have to turn down roles I really want to do because I can't travel. But that's okay, because you make peace with things in your mind.

10. It's important to scare yourself, to do things you don't think you're capable of doing.

11. My grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations of my life, she taught me how to be a real woman ... to have strength and self-respect-and to never give those things away.

1. I love that people are going, Yeah, I love a hundred different kinds of beauty; it's not all the tall, skinny supermodel. Around the world, we have to find the beauty. Now more than ever, we're looking.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. When I was a question on Jeopardy, that's when I felt famous.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. I'm a big organizer person. I can spend a good three hours on my sock drawer. It's fantastic!

10. Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.

11. I always say funny doesnt sag, which seems like a good rule of thumb. People should be more interested in your personality than how you look in a bikini. As an actress, you think about longevity, probably more than men. You hope to have a long lasting career.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. I was jogging and I got hit by a car...it's not funny at all. They said I am very hard headed because I landed right on my head and I have a scar, hence my new hairdo. I don't remember much about it but miraculously, and thank God, I am fine.

20. I'm a fast-talking, sharp-shooting, tough girl. I like to think that I'm really tough on the outside, with a caramel-sweet center.

21. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

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