Reese Witherspoon Quotes

We’re more than just our dresses.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

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

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, I'm starting to understand this.

And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.

If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!

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.

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

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

Confidence is everything in this business.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

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

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.

I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

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.

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.

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.

No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.

I love that people are going, Yeah, I love a hundred different kinds of beauty; it's not all the tall, skinny supermodel. Around the world, we have to find the beauty. Now more than ever, we're looking.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

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

I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.