Latest Reese Witherspoon Quotes from Interviews

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• Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Reality, World, Dinosaurs

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Reese Witherspoon

  Artist, Giving, Rooms

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  People, Different, World

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Fashion, Self, Expression

  Source: www.elle.com

• I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Fashion, Art, Paris

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Reese Witherspoon

  Thinking, America, World

  Source: www.elle.com

• You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Ideas, People, Stories

  Source: www.elle.com

• God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

  Reese Witherspoon

  Country, America, Listening

  Source: www.elle.com

• Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Art, People, Television

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Girlfriend, Wife

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Jobs, Artist, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mom, Young, Versus

  Source: www.elle.com

• To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Army, People, Courageous

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Care, Partners, Needed

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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

  Reese Witherspoon

  Trying, Our Family, Turns

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• My husband is my biggest supporter on earth. He encourages me to put myself out in the world in ways that feel scary, and he's like, "I'm always gonna catch you. I'm always gonna be there for you." My supportive mother and family. Honey, it's such a village.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Husband, Scary

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a man's till 28. I was almost 34 when we met; he was 39. So I wouldn't say either of us has wildly changed; I just love him more and more.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Men, Talking, Psychologist

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mom, Kids, Healing

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Son, Want, Way

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Teenager, Kids, Needs

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Illustration, Lasts, Vacuums

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

  Reese Witherspoon

  People, Giving, Factories

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

  Reese Witherspoon

  Entrepreneur, Unbelievable, Fascinating

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• I was debating whether to do Legally Blonde, and I saw this interview with Gloria Steinem about how important Goldie Hawn's role in Private Benjamin was for women; by the end of the movie, the character socked her fiancé in the face at the altar because he didn't understand who she'd become through her journey. I was like, "I feel like Gloria Steinem told me to do Legally Blonde. That's how Elle Woods is too!"

  Reese Witherspoon

  Character, Journey, Important

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

• I always let my husband read the script so he knows what's about to happen to his wife. When I played Cheryl Strayed in Wild, I'd get really mad about certain things, I'd say really profound things, and I'd curse out of nowhere. He'd say, "Are you you, or are you Cheryl?"

  Reese Witherspoon

  Husband, Profound, Mad

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.