Top 188 Quotes & Sayings by Goldie Hawn - Page 3

I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin.

I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.

I just love good smells.

Women, by nature, are a certain way; they think a certain way. Women are web thinkers. We think wide... Why? Because we have children. Why? Because we were born as women to have children and to be able to take care of them. We do so many things at once.

'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.

I just wanted to be normal. I wanted to have a normal life. I wanted to have children. And when I was picked out of a chorus line and cast in a TV series, I got anxious, so I took the bull by the horns and went to see a psychologist. And it was the greatest move I ever made.

If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

Marriage is ridiculous.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.

I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

Men, they come and go. They always will. Hopefully, they stay. But, it’s the girl that’s sitting next to you, or the girl that’s sitting across from you, that’s going to get you through everything.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don't.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

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

When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.

I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

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

I believe you have to start with a craft; you don't just start with a dream. You've got to put a lot of work in. If you want to pursue acting, then you go to acting class. If you want to be a dancer, then you learn to dance, which is what I did.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?