Reese Witherspoon

[On husband Ryan Phillippe] I don’t think I can imagine a better guy than the one I’ve ended up with.

I like work. If it’s not hard enough, I try to make it harder. I like the process of being daunted by it, tackling it, and knowing I can do it.

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

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.

People want to try and move you into a place where you can be easily identifiable by every woman in America – to be this very likable woman in a romantic comedy. And it’s really hard for me. I just don’t see myself as the girl that everybody likes. I never have been and I don’t know how to be that person.

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.

At this point, we aren’t just flirting with disaster; we’re rounding third base and asking if disaster has any condoms.

I don’t know how you explain Piers Morgan back to Americans now. I don’t think he ever intended for America to be his home, and there’s a difference between criticising the place you have come to call home and the place you have come to live in for a bit. Ideally, on the Venn diagram between myself and Piers there would be no overlap whatsoever, on either a personal or professional level. If we could be two non-interlocking circles I’d be fine with that. Any comparison with him makes me want to challenge you to a duel.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make-believe.

Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I like someone who’s not afraid to be a kid!

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started?

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

[on sleeping with Trump] I’m very food-motivated. That’s why I stayed and held out for so long because I was told there would be snacks. I was starving! Maybe that’s part of why I was easy prey because I was light-headed.

There’s no substitute to being successful on an actual chart.

I’m starting to know how the world works a bit, and I’m learning more and more that the only thing that matters is what happens between ‘action’ and ‘cut’. I’m allowing myself to be a bit more selfish, for want of a better word, just that it’s OK to focus and that I don’t have to be nice to everybody.

I’m waiting for them to make ‘Thundercats’. I would love to be Cheetara.

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.