Top 100 Reese Witherspoon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.”

— Reese Witherspoon

2. “Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.”

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3. “One honest voice is louder than a crowd.”

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4. “I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.”

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5. “Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.”

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6. “If you’re not yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”

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7. “Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.”

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8. “It’s important to do things that scare you to death!”

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9. “Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.”

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10. “Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside.”

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11. “I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.”

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12. “I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have.”

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13. “I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.”

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14. “My rule is, if it’s not moving-monogram it!”

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15. “When you finally accept that you’re a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.”

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16. “Confidence is everything in this business.”

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17. “Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?”

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18. “I’m just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.”

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19. “There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.”

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20. “But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.”

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21. “I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.”

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22. “I’d always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn’t work, and she would explain that her parents didn’t approve of her working after she had children. She didn’t feel like she had choices.”

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23. “My grandma always said, “Pretty is as pretty does.”

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24. “I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.”

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25. “I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That’s what I want to do.”

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26. “Life isn’t about perfection. There is no rule book. Life has many different chapters, and every chapter deserves celebrating.”

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27. “And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.”

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28. “Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.”

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29. “Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.”

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30. “Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.”

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31. “There’s a fabulous book, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill, about African American hair salons and their owners during the 1960s – women who changed the entire social landscape of the South.”

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32. “I always say that it’s very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you’re responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It’s important to go through that, because hopefully you won’t repeat yourself.”

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33. “I’m definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I’ve experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it’s good to realize that you’re always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.”

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34. “Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.”

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35. “If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.”

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36. “Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.”

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37. “My husband is my biggest supporter on earth. He encourages me to put myself out in the world in ways that feel scary, and he’s like, “I’m always gonna catch you. I’m always gonna be there for you.” My supportive mother and family. Honey, it’s such a village.”

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38. “If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!”

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39. “There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.”

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40. “My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it’s not moving – monogram it!”

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41. “Dorothea always said that it was a combination of beauty and strength that made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery. Our famous hospitality isn’t martyrdom; it’s modeling. True southern women treat everyone the way we want to be treated: with grace and respect – no matter where they come from or how different from you they may be.”

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42. “Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves – while trying to have children and having no family leave.”

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43. “They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but my grandmother Dorothea always said that pearls are a southern girl’s best friend.”

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44. “Obviously, this isn’t the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.”

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45. “My kids make me laugh every day. And they’re so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about – the guilt of being gone – in a way that’s so healing for me, when they say, “Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do.””

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46. “There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.”

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47. “I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”

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48. “That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I’m missing something important at my daughter’s school which makes me feel sick inside. It’s a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.”

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49. “Kids are the best part of my day. I don’t wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.”

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50. “I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn’t in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.”

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