If you are not yelling at your kids,you are not spending enough time with them. — Reese Witherspoon

The truth is… I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart… and I never really got it back. — 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

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

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

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

A proper southern goodbye can take hours. — Reese Witherspoon

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it. — Reese Witherspoon

That said, I’d love to do a musical, either in film or on stage. — Reese Witherspoon

Do I need men? I don’t think it’s about needing men. It’s about love. — Reese Witherspoon

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

I love to sing around the house and in the car, but my daughter hates it. — 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

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

I would love to have more kids. 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. — Reese Witherspoon

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me. — Reese Witherspoon

I’m trying to make it cool to be a good girl. — Reese Witherspoon

I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy. — Reese Witherspoon

I’ve been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to. — Reese Witherspoon

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

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

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I’m more womanly. I feel sexier. — Reese Witherspoon

It’s different now. we have a lot more experience. we have a lot more wisdom. we’ve learned a lot, and we feel we’ve learnt the stories we want to tell. — 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

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

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I’m a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they’re interested in tend to really influence me. — 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

I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. — Reese Witherspoon

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs? — Reese Witherspoon

Women want to see the truth. They don’t want to see some perfect girl. — Reese Witherspoon

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

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, ‘If you want something done, do it yourself.’ She must have said that 100 times to me–as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone. — Reese Witherspoon

I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women. — Reese Witherspoon

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

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

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

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

This is a movement to say we’re more than just our dresses. … It’s hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry. — Reese Witherspoon

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self–respect, and to never give those things away. — 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’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. — Reese Witherspoon

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

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. — Reese Witherspoon

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her. — Reese Witherspoon

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out. — Reese Witherspoon

I’m just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. — Reese Witherspoon

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. — Reese Witherspoon

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

He called me. He had this beautiful sketch, He works so hard and loves women. — 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 don’t want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you’re wearing feels reductive. — Reese Witherspoon

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside. — Reese Witherspoon

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

I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. — Reese Witherspoon

I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have. — Reese Witherspoon

When you finally accept that you’re a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool. — Reese Witherspoon

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. — Reese Witherspoon

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

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

But listen, I’m 29–years–old, I’m really lucky to be there and whatever happens I’ve been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I’d be really content. — Reese Witherspoon

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. — Reese Witherspoon

It’s fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama. — Reese Witherspoon

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. — Reese Witherspoon

Jumping into a cultural conversation is so rich, television and movies help us synthesize the things we’re seeing on tv, and give us a human perspective. — Reese Witherspoon