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.
Katherine HeiglPeople make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
Katherine HeiglThe more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.
Katherine HeiglAs women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
Katherine HeiglI totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
Katherine HeiglI think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
Katherine HeiglIf 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.
Katherine HeiglA lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
Katherine HeiglMy 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.
Katherine HeiglMy career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
Katherine HeiglI definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
Katherine HeiglMy sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
Katherine HeiglI'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.
Katherine HeiglI think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.
Katherine HeiglIsn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
Katherine HeiglI 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.
Katherine HeiglI'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
Katherine HeiglAdoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
Katherine HeiglI spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
Katherine HeiglI 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.
Katherine HeiglWhen 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.
Katherine HeiglI 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.
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