Reese Witherspoon

"You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, Im starting to understand this."

"I have to be honest with you. Comedy is what I want to see at the movies these days. Life is frickin hard, man. I want to go to the movies and see people happy and enjoying themselves and having some fun. Ive made other kinds of movies, for sure. But its pretty apparent to me thats what people want. Thats what I want. I enjoy those kinds of movies."

"I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. Ive worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work — and in my life."

"Im always endlessly surprised about the people who come into my life, who I get to collaborate with. I feel really overwhelmed by those opportunities. But its not like I fell off the turnip truck and suddenly became who I am. I really have worked hard for it, and I have to acknowledge that. I care about what I do, and I have a sense of pride in my work. And you can never be totally settled as an actor or artist or musician. You have to keep the fire under you, because thats what makes you better."

"You spend months and months listening to the music, absorbing, practicing, working with real musicians who worked with them and getting as much of that as you can. And then the day you start shooting, you have to throw it all away. Because, they had no self-consciousness. They were natural performers and at that time, it wasnt about how you could synthesize a voice and make it appealing, it was about the natural little hiccups and the way you related a story or wrote the soul in the words you wrote. And 90% of your popularity was your performance and your interpretation of your own song. So, once we learned it all you just have to just kind of hope it all sunk in somewhere and just let it all go, cause they just had incredible confidence."