Reese Witherspoon

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

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.

[On trying to get out of the part of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line] I called my attorney. My agent. My manager. I said “You know y’all, you’re serious about this? I’m really.. I gotta get out of this. Like can’t they call ‘Leann Rimes’? I mean she’s good.

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.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it’s not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

Even people that know Johnny Cash’s music really well and know that he was married don’t really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

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

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

Last year I couldn’t even have a date,but now it seems that girls have changed their opinion about me.

I have to work with IKEA… Yo, IKEA, let Kanye create! I want a bed that he makes! I want a chair that he makes! I want more products from Ye!

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power’s an aphrodisiac.

I think they can co-exist. You don’t have to put one down for another. I’ve been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won’t take away from the music.

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I’m drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

I wanna sing about something that’s sexy and edgy.

I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.

It’s VH1, it’s everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

I’ve still got a twinkle in me.