Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoonis an American actress and producer. Born in Louisiana and raised in Tennessee, Witherspoon began her career as a child actress, making her professional screen debut in The Man in the Moon, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 March 1976
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
articulate family sure wants
I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.
roles want satisfaction
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.
jobs want
I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
life want matter
I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.
mother children want-something
One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.
girl perfect want
Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.
son want way
You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.
books constant learning life study tons
And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.
comedy evolved people reasons romantic since social sorts time
Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,
ask june people trying
People used to ask June how she was doing, and she would say I'm just trying to matter. I know what she means.
money scary spend
The thing is, we're not extravagant people. It's just unbelievable the amounts of money we make. But we don't spend it. It's too scary to spend it.
both dynamic sort
So that's been sort of a different dynamic for both of us, I think. But it has been really good.
honor thank
So thank you so much for this honor.
coaching creating music sounds
At that point, music was very organic. It wasn't about synthesizing sounds or creating a computer. It was about storytelling and interpretation and performance. There was a lot of that kind of coaching going on.