Top 70 Goldie Hawn Quotes

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

My parents always supported me, but I was put to task. My father thought when I sang, I was sharp; my mother was upset when I wasn’t in the first line at recitals.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he – you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.

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.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that’s how they’re going to sell it.

I just love good smells.

It’s wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You’re also more rested – you’re not as reactive.

I would have been long divorced if I got married.

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.

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.

What helps with aging is serious cognition – thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that 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?

My mother loved the Bible.

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.

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

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.’

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’m a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That’s the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

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.

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

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

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

It’s wonderful to know you’re aging, because that means you’re still on the planet, right?

To me, it’s that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

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

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.

Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much – I don’t know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.

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

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.

Getting older is a fact of life.

I’ve been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy and my practice is really Buddhist.

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.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That’s because we become what we think.

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

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

I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It’s my first tattoo.

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

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That’s what I want to know.

Don’t tell me I can’t do that. Watch me. Don’t tell me I can’t direct this movie. Watch me.

My father was Presbyterian.

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

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

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

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

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

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.

When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, ‘What are we going to do now?’ I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, ‘Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?’

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

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.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

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

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

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

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 have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it’s very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

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

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 successful or not, you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.

I’ve been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

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

I believe that life is about doing.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.