Top 188 Quotes & Sayings by Goldie Hawn - Page 2

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient.

A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy.

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

I would have been long divorced if I got married.

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

I always wanted to be a mother first.

We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy.

Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important.

When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones.

We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

My father was Presbyterian.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life.

I don't eat a lot. I think we overeat.

A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle.

Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.

It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money.

It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.

I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.

By living mindfully, you understand that there are many transitions in life. You just go through them.

I believe that life is about doing.

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

I don't like facial hair, and I don't like kissing facial hair, as you cant find the lips.

When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you?

I do a lot of juicing. I don't put a lot of food in my stomach, and I don't mix my foods too much. So if I want to have, like, protein, I'll just eat a bowl of lentils; I won't mix it with a bunch of stuff.

A fearful child cannot learn.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know.

You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.

I walk every day, and I run and do all kinds of that.

Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing.

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

Sadly, so many arts programs have been eliminated from schools due to budget constraints. These creative outlets are so very important, not only for a child's well-being, but also for self-expression and fun.

I guess I came to know this about myself: for better or worse, I don't give up.

If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married.

I've been married twice. It didn't work.