Reese Witherspoon Biography

On herself:

"I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs."

“I have cellulite. I have stretch marks. I feel intimidated by Victoria's Secret. Hollywood is one of those endless competitions, but it's like running a race toward nothing. There's no winning. You're never going to win the pretty race. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be.”

"Attending an all-girls school has its advantages, there are no inhibitions. You can walk to school with your zit cream on and your hair in rollers and nobody cares."

Choosing her parts:

"I have a weird process, but the main thing is like this: I hear her voice in my head. There are a lot of wonderful scripts my agents can't believe I pass on, but I do because I can't hear the voice. It doesn't appeal to me then. I'm really careful. Unless I hear the voice, I can't do it."

On fame:

"As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that's about how much you put yourself out there. It's not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy and never let our public persona get out of hand."

On singing (during Walk the Line):

“The director came to us and he said ‘No, I really want you guys to learn to sing. To learn to play instruments and I want you to record an album’. and that is that... and I just absolutely was just gob-smacked and I said .. ‘I don't know. I can't do that.’ And he said ‘Well I want you to try.’ Now that's the thing for me. If someone asks me to try, I will always try.”