Goldie Hawn Quotes

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I want women to learn to find themselves.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

I am a comedian. My brain is critical - it's overthinking - but you can find ways to turn it down and realize that's not who you really are.

The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.