Top 60 Goldie Hawn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”

— Goldie Hawn

2. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

— Goldie Hawn

3. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”

— Goldie Hawn

4. “Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.”

— Goldie Hawn

5. “Stress is something that’s created in the mind, basically. It’s how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.”

— Goldie Hawn

6. “We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.”

— Goldie Hawn

7. “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”

— Goldie Hawn

8. “We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.”

— Goldie Hawn

9. “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

— Goldie Hawn

10. “So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.”

— Goldie Hawn

11. “Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you’re here.”

— Goldie Hawn

12. “Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”

— Goldie Hawn

13. “If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk...”

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14. “The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you’ve accrued over those years.”

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15. “We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.”

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16. “Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.”

— Goldie Hawn

17. “Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it’s that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.”

— Goldie Hawn

18. “The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.”

— Goldie Hawn

19. “All I ever wanted to be was happy.”

— Goldie Hawn

20. “So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it’s not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.”

— Goldie Hawn

21. “At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.”

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22. “There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.”

— Goldie Hawn

23. “I’ve come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It’s honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.”

— Goldie Hawn

24. “The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people’s lives.”

— Goldie Hawn

25. “You don’t have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don’t hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.”

— Goldie Hawn

26. “A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.”

— Goldie Hawn

27. “Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.”

— Goldie Hawn

28. “Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.”

— Goldie Hawn

29. “I’ll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.”

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30. “I’m not afraid of my femininity and I’m not afraid of my sexuality.”

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31. “What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.”

— Goldie Hawn

32. “So maybe that’s what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.”

— Goldie Hawn

33. “Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.”

— Goldie Hawn

34. “When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.”

— Goldie Hawn

35. “I’m a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it’s true. I am a feminist to a point. But I’m not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.”

— Goldie Hawn

36. “When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.”

— Goldie Hawn

37. “I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.”

— Goldie Hawn

38. “I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don’t know if I’m more of anything.”

— Goldie Hawn

39. “If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success.”

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40. “One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.”

— Goldie Hawn

41. “It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.”

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42. “I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it’s endless. It’s just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.”

— Goldie Hawn

43. “I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.”

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44. “The only path to happiness is to really be all that you can be. The be secure and unafraid of speaking your own mind. If your intentions are not just to win the game, then you can feel good that you have spoken your mind without malice or anger but just from the depths of your truth.”

— Goldie Hawn

45. “There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”

— Goldie Hawn

46. “Men, they come and go. They always will. Hopefully, they stay. But, it’s the girl that’s sitting next to you, or the girl that’s sitting across from you, that’s going to get you through everything.”

— Goldie Hawn

47. “We’re social animals; we’re meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don’t think.”

— Goldie Hawn

48. “Because I like that I got an ugly girl’s personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don’t.”

— Goldie Hawn

49. “I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It’s my first tattoo.”

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50. “I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We’re all built with illusions. And they break.”

— Goldie Hawn