Katherine Heigl Quotes

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.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn't? That's really fun for me.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

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

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

I've had paranoid panic attacks.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I pride myself on being kind.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

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

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

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

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