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Reese Witherspoon Biography

Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She is the recipient of several awards, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Born in New Orleans and raised in Tennessee, she began her career as a teenager, making her professional screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991), for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Following breakout roles in Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992) and Jack the Bear (1993), she starred in the comedy-drama Pleasantville (1998), for which she won the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Performance. Her leading role of Tracy Flick in Election (1999) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

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I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Good, Good Life, Live, Matter, Mean, Trying

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Award, Awards, Clothes, Dress, Winning

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.

Back, Give, Giving, Like, Looks, World

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Particularly, People, Table, Tables, Use

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 be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.

Ambition, Ambitious, Believe, Dirty, Happen

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

Cells, Hide, Naked, People, Phones, Took

It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.

Definitely, Husband, Jobs, Officer, Police, Sorry

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

Girl, Littles, Obsessed, Parton, Dolly

Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.

Drink, Feel Better, Feels

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

Becoming, Careers, Giving Up, Profession, Struggle, Thinking

And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.

Couple, Interesting, Revelation, Song, Writing

I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've 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.

Character, Thinking, Two, Life, Woman, Worked

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.

Bed, Children, Father, Inspirational, Mother, Movie

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

Ideas, People, Stories, Actress, Tell

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Car, House, Lovely, Extravagant, Reasonable

There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

Important, Laugh, Laughing, People, Right, Timeless

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.

Children, Kids, Love, Sunday, Things, Think

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.

Blessed, Challenges, Giving, Reason

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

Factories, Giving, People, Place, Production, Traveled

I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.

Cute, Daughter, Girl, Girls, Marketable, Start

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