Reese Witherspoon

I’d love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Confidence is everything in this business.

Life isn’t just about you: It’s about family and friends and giving back.

What gets me is how many women – young women – give up their power and sense of self. Thinking they’re going to get more out of life if they take off their clothes and objectify themselves, instead of functioning on the principle that they’re smart and capable, that you can be an actress and not be on the covers of T&A magazines. I’m flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do that. It blows my mind.

I’m just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

[on Ryan Phillippe] I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have.

I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing – anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It’s so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

Obviously, [Hollywood is lacking] stories from women of color. If you talk about areas of the industry that are underrepresented, that is an area that the whole industry could stand with getting better at.

[On Lord Of The Rings] I don’t like all this stupid Gollum begat Wobblo and the Oompa Loompas and…Oh Jesus Christ! There was too much “Oh, God, here come the gloodloys…” Christ Almighty, what are they talking about!?

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

Because sex is like boxing, if one of the parties didn’t agree to participate, the other one is committing a crime.

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.

[on Ryan Phillippe] I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I’ll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Mean girls are always going to exist, and you can’t fight them. Don’t lose yourself in going along with them just to hide, because you won’t feel good about that either. But there are people like you out there, trust me. When I was in school, I felt like I was the only one, and I got to college, and a whole new world opened up for me, and I’ve never, ever felt that way again. I did theater outside of school, and I think that was my salvation as well. I found people that had the same interests and respected each other. It exists, and keep trying to find it, because it’s worth it not to succomb.

We need to stop talking about whether women are funny. And we need to acknowledge that black people are funnier than white people. Let’s discuss that.

Congress is like jazz – it’s really about the bills it’s not passing. It’s also like jazz in that most people hate it and anyone who says they don’t are lying.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.