Reese Witherspoon Quotes

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.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

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.

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

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

Confidence is everything in this business.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

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 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.

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

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

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

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

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.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.

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

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

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

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.

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

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

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

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

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

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.

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.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

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.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.

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