Reese Witherspoon

[on “Pleasantville”] We were thrilled for just the three nominations we got, but obviously it’s a little sad. I went through so many press junkets with people saying they loved it. And Joan Allen was robbed but she can’t get nominated every year. She’s an inspiration for every young actress. She has that calm and reserve about herself and makes you think she appreciates the normal things of everyday. Then she transforms into this character that’s so different.

Attending an all-girls school has its advantages, there are no inhibitions. You can walk to school with your zit cream on and your hair in rollers and nobody cares.

I’m not perfect! I’m human. I make mistakes. But I try to be as conscious as I can about things I should be. If I’m going to do something commercial and mainstream and made for the masses, I just believe you can make those kinds of films with quality – and good ideas and good intentions. There’s a lot of negativity out there.

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

Confidence is everything in this business.

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 define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.