Reese Witherspoon quotes

“Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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

— Reese Witherspoon

“Confidence is everything in this business.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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

— Reese Witherspoon

“I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.”

— Reese Witherspoon

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

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“I literally think I look bad in every picture.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“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.”

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“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.”

— Reese Witherspoon