Reese Witherspoon Quotes

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Reese Witherspoon

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 22, 1976

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

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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.

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I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

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Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

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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.

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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.

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Confidence is everything in this business.

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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.

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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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 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.

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Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

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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.

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

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