Andie MacDowell Quotes

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

I think when you wear so many hats, be it of a mom or a working woman, you need to feel good and look good as well.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.