Reese Witherspoon

When I was a question on Jeopardy!, that’s when I felt famous!

I’m pretty conservative or old-fashion, I should say, it’s how I grew up. I think you have to let your children be individuals, but you have to set boundaries. Ryan and I have similar ideas about all of it, you really have to support you partner in the things that are important to them and hold the line together.

I feel like there’s a race being run in Los Angeles for some unattainable goal – to be the best, the skinniest, the most beautiful. I just admit that that’s what I’ll never be.

[on the movie business] The battles that we face in this business aren’t financial, but they are moral. And I certainly think that the longer you can keep your values, and your morality intact, and keep your head on your shoulders about what is important at the end of the day, you can get the most out of this business and really emerge with something wonderful.

[on having a baby] Obviously, this isn’t the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.

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.

I was thinking about why I make movies, and I know why. Life is hard. It’s nice to go escape and have a good time at the movies. If I can give people a movie about hope, love and the future, then I’ve done my job.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

The fact that I am a young woman who doesn’t need a man for money. I don’t need a man for a job. I’ve never had to f**k for beats. I’ve never had to f**k for a record deal. I don’t have those pressures. I get up when I want, shop when I want.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy.

I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it’s magical.

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don’t give up!

I think it’s really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what’s going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that’s the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz had been friends of mine, and I wanted to pay tribute to them.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.