Quotes

Over the years, and just like all celebrities, Renée Zellweger has been in a lot of interviews. On this page you can find some of her most famous quotes.  Put together, they should give you an insight into the person behind the actress … this is the way she thinks!

 

 

• “Flying first class used to be ‘Woah!’, but now that I have to get off a 12 hour flight and go right to work, it has become more of a necessity. Luxury now means cooking dinner in my own home, eating it on the couch while I watch TV, then falling asleep right there.”       

 

• “I had no way of knowing I was going to go completely blank and the noise in the room would go white, I remember the room was still, as though it was a freeze-frame mock-up of the theatre in gold and red, and there was this Sean Penn doll right in the middle, smiling up at me.”

 

• “I was happy to look down and see these big thighs and cellulite. I loved it. It was truly liberating. There’s so much room to think about other things when you’re not thinking about your body.” 

 

• “It diminishes your worth as a person and your character, to some degree, if you’re willing to share your greatest intimacies with people you’ve never met.”  

 

• “It`s great to be a brunet. I can sneak around downtown Los Angeles and nobody knows it`s me. I went to Starbucks to get my coffee in the morning, and they said, `What`s your name?` I said, `Oh, Renée.` Nobody even looked at me twice. My friends even walk past me. It`s fantastic because I feel so free again. That`s why I think the old adage that blonds have more fun is a presumption!”  

 

• “Learning a whole new medium of expression yourself is so fulfilling in ways that I never imagined. I feel more present than I have in my life for so long as a result of this. To use your body in that way, to express yourself in that way… I shouldn’t even try to explain it, because I can’t.”

 

• “People did suggest to me, ‘Oh, it might not be necessary to gain that much weight or as much as you did last time.’ I thought the weight was essential in repeating the journey. If you’re not going to be who she is, then what is the point?”

 

• “Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.”

 

• “Children? Sure. But I still don’t want to make a list of choices that will determine the rest of my life, decide in advance what’s going to be good. I don’t want to make life that… small.”

 

• “Deep down, I’m a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I’ll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.”

 

• “Emotionally gaining the weight didn`t affect me. In fact, I was afraid that I didn`t gain enough weight. We were working six days a week, so my fear was that I`d lose a few pounds from the work, and the fluctuations in my weight would show on the screen. But they weren`t noticeable.”

 

• “For me it’s a very powerful, very moving love story. They were so deeply in love and they went through so much together and she never gave up hope and he never gave up fighting, quite literally, for his family.”

 

• “hope to experience this transition as privately as possible.”

 

• “I always loved going through the box of hand-me-down clothes from my mother’s best friend’s kids. In fact, I’m a cutting-coupons girl.”

 

•  “I am very proud to be Norwegian”

 

• “I believe in love, but I don’t sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.”

 

• “I don’t want to sound cavalier by saying that I’m OK with my situation, because I’m not a frivolous person and don’t take on something of such significance lightly. But there’s good in every situation. It sounds simplistic, but I still have the good things that have always been in my life. There’s nothing to add, I got married, and I’m not married. Not everything works out like you might hope, and I’m not the first person to have disappointment in my life.”

 

• “I know that sounds so crazy, but I really cherish it when someone is mean, because they’re just having a bad day and they don’t recognize that you know Tom Cruise, and so they don’t alter their behavior in any way.  I love it.”

 

• “I learned how little in the way of material goods we really need, and how beautiful a simple life can be. In Romania people work with their hands every day, and you’ll see an 80- year-old woman still chopping wood because she’s been looking after herself all her life, and she still has the strength to do it.”

 

• “I remember driving to the audition, and I remember being very calm because I was thinking, `This is never going to happen.”

 

• “I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.”

 

• “I see the Oscar in my bedroom and it’s like I bought it on Hollywood Boulevard at a souvenir shop.”

 

• “I still feel like I`ve crashed the party.”

 

• “I think we can all relate to Bridget standing in a hallway wanting to know, `Do you love me or not?` She just blurts it out and maybe that makes her seem like she`s not strong. I think she`s very brave because she`s speaking her mind. Ultimately, she knows that even if she doesn`t get the right answer from this man, she will still get up and move forward. That`s strength to me.”

 

• “I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That’s when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, “Come and meet Tom Cruise.”

 

• “I was always different in that I liked being by myself. Even in kindergarten, when we were told to line up and go to the playground, I didn’t feel like participating. I wasn’t naughty; I didn’t appreciate the line. Some of my best childhood memories are of being alone in my room-writing, reading books, listening to the Beatles, living in my mind. It’s always busy in there.”

 

• “I’m an intensely private person. I think that personal shared experiences are precious and they’re not for sale. It diminishes the integrity of your relationships — your real relationships — when it’s just thrown out there for the people that you don’t have built-up mutual trust experiences with. And I know that’s really boring, but I guess it’s just where I come from. The thing I guess you learn as you get older, isn’t it, is that you just go ahead and get on with your life because; you know, what’s the alternative? And I always believe there’s something good there if you just pay attention.”

 

• “I’m really not considering anything until probably this time next year. If there’s nothing for them to talk about, you figure… ‘ll make myself as boring as possible…What is going on with the media? It’s crazy. It used to be that you were famous because you achieved something that was considered to be beyond human capability…The message that it sends is that society doesn’t value what you have to contribute, but it values whether or not you’re recognisable, for any reason. I think that just leads to something that is so ugly. “

 

• “In 1996 I got a phone call offering a role in Jerry Maguire and my family and friends were there in this little restaurant. I remember thinking quite tragically that I might never do that again. It wasn’t fear – just acknowledgement of this potential life change, and that I would lose that. I loved my friends where I worked and I was happy.”

 

• “In kindergarten, when we were told to line up and go to the playground, i did not feel like participating. I wasn’t naughty; i didn’t appreciate… the line.”

 

• “It made me sad to notice there’s more American culture in society. It’s about having their eyebrows groomed, pedicures, being more conscious about being thin and whether they’re dressed appropriately. I’m used to those things in the US, but it made me sad to see it in the UK. Personally, I’m not bothered about my appearance. “

 

• “It opens your eyes in this town, it’s amazing. It’s taught me who I don’t want to be.”  

 

• “It saddens me every day when people come up and say, `OK, how did you lose that weight?` I can`t speak about it because I am not an authority on weight loss. I am just not. I am not challenged with a medical situation that`s weight-related and that I need to pay attention to.”

 

•  “It was a sad day when I had to retire the C-cup bra to the underwear drawer.”

 

• “It was very exciting for me to fill out Bridget`s dresses. It felt really great. I didn`t feel any different. I didn`t feel uncomfortable, and I didn`t feel as if it changed my life. I got such positive responses from the fellows in my life while I looked like Bridget Jones. I had a lot of friends who said I should think about keeping some of the weight on. I have to say I agreed, because there were certain things about it I liked very much. But, of course, I`m a girl, and I thought, `Ugh, no.` Like anybody, I want to look my best.”

 

• “It’s fun to be a girl, put on the dress and go out.”

 

• “It’s so boring. It’s not martyrdom to change your body a little bit to play a girl you really want to play. I’d say that getting a funky haircut for a part is more traumatising.”

 

• “I’ve always been perfectly fine sitting next to the kitchen in a restaurant: food doesn’t taste better by the window. But certain things- integrity, love, learning, friendships, freedom- are non-negotiable.”

 

• “I’ve had three lovers in the past four years, and they all ran a distant second to a good book and a warm bath.”

 

• “Making movies is the best blue-collar job in the world. I spend 20-hour days with carpenters, electricians-all of us getting our hands dirty. Acting is only the art part.”

 

• “Miss Potter, it was really challenging, actually. I thought it would be very straightforward research and a very straightforward experience, but there’s so much ambiguity about what she might have been like as a person. There are so many contradictions in the material that’s available . . . the more I read, the less certain I became of things I thought I knew about her. It made it fascinating, but really, really scary at the same time. “

 

• “My goals for the year are to concentrate on doing a better job of managing my personal life, to do lots of cooking and to focus on my cat! “

 

• “My life has far exceeded what I might ever have dreamed of because I would never have been so bold as to dream that these things might happen to me.”

 

• “My worst moment while making the film was nostricles, which are not sexy. You don’t know that your nose is running because you can’t feel it. It just freezes before you realise you need a Kleenex. Boy, I tell you, that’s funny.”

 

• “Oh, it might not be necessary to gain that much weight or as much as you did last time.` I thought the weight was essential in repeating the journey. If you’re not going to be who she is, then what is the point?”

 

• “On a superficial level, I’m clumsy, self-deprecating, uncertain at times, and I say stupid things.”

 

• “Once you’ve reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it’s all the same. I don’t have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.”

 

• “shouting about how he did not want his future children to be eating sushi and fancy French food – he wanted proper American food and he wanted a wife who could do her own cooking.”

 

• “The junk food pig-outs don’t stop just because I am not going to be playing Bridget any more. Once you’re experienced the pleasures of gorging yourself, you can’t just turn that off.”

 

• “This is still very, very big.”

 

• “Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, ‘You had me at weapons.”

 

• “We have a lovely relationship. I write him six-page emails about my political rage, and he writes back.”

 

• “What I admire most about Bridget is her ever-present optimism in the face of adversity. I love how she has romantic troubles, but she gets back up and even laughs at herself. Me? I do my best. I keep on trying, anyway.”