Reese Witherspoon is one of the most successful actresses of her generation. She has starred in some of the biggest movies of the past decade, including Legally Blonde, Walk the Line, and Sweet Home Alabama. She has also produced several hit movies, including Gone Girl and Wild.
Witherspoon was born in Louisiana in 1976. She was raised in Tennessee, and she attended Stanford University. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Witherspoon’s first big break came in the movie The Man in the Moon, which was released in 1991.
Witherspoon has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Ryan Phillippe, with whom she has two children. She is currently married to Jim Toth, and they have one child together.
Table of Contents:
1. Early Life
2. Career
3. Personal Life
4. Awards and Accolades
5. Top Reese Witherspoon Quotes
Early Life
Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was born to Betty and John Witherspoon. Her father was a military doctor, and her mother was a nurse. She has two older siblings, a sister and a brother.
Witherspoon was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Stanford University, where she studied English literature. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Career
Witherspoon’s first big break came in the 1991 movie The Man in the Moon. She played the role of a 14-year-old girl who is in love with her older brother’s best friend. The movie was a critical and commercial success, and it helped to launch Witherspoon’s career.
In the early 2000s, Witherspoon starred in a number of successful movies, including Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, and Walk the Line. She won an Academy Award for her role in Walk the Line.
In recent years, Witherspoon has focused on producing movies, rather than starring in them. She has produced several hit movies, including Gone Girl and Wild.
Personal Life
Witherspoon has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Ryan Phillippe, with whom she has two children. They were married from 1999 to 2007.
Witherspoon is currently married to Jim Toth, a talent agent. They have one child together.
Awards and Accolades
Witherspoon has won numerous awards throughout her career. In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Walk the Line. She has also won Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critics’ Choice Awards.
Top Reese Witherspoon Quotes
“Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“One honest voice is louder than a crowd.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“If you’re not yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.””— Reese Witherspoon
“When you finally accept that you’re a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Life isn’t about perfection. There is no rule book. Life has many different chapters, and every chapter deserves celebrating.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn’t get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.”— Reese Witherspoon
“But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.”— Reese Witherspoon
“It really bothers me when people don’t use coasters. Particularly on my table.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Confidence is everything in this business.”— Reese Witherspoon
“My grandma always said, “Pretty is as pretty does.”— Reese Witherspoon
“There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.”— Reese Witherspoon
“My rule is, if it’s not moving-monogram it!”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.”— Reese Witherspoon
“If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I’m just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I’m very active. I like being outside.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.”— Reese Witherspoon
“It’s important to do things that scare you to death!”— Reese Witherspoon
“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.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?”— Reese Witherspoon
“Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves – while trying to have children and having no family leave.”— Reese Witherspoon
“Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.”— Reese Witherspoon
“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!”— Reese Witherspoon