Top 77 Andie MacDowell Quotes

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren’t famous. There weren’t a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of ’em.

We’ve become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn’t seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that’s what you’re supposed to be doing in the car.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I’m a movie star, or I’m this model, but I’m still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

When the children were little, I’d fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I’d leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn’t even read a script.

I’ve worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I’m not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It’s odd. It’s like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.

I’ve heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before ‘ER’ was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It’s just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we’ve never seen. It’s protocol.

I remember what I was like as a teenager, with an enormous amount of energy and hormones. You have to be able to release it, and dancing is really an innocent way.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

I need some downtime before I go to sleep.

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they’ll do anything.

My girls have been a great support to me. I come to them when I need to make a decision; they love to watch me work.

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

My kids learned to be independent.

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don’t have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you’re thrown in with and have to work with, is that I’m grounded.

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don’t – you lose it.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you’re insecure.

I think yoga has given me better posture. People don’t realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you’re supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that’s all I did.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don’t feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I’m a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they’re genius. I think they’re some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It’s so innocent but brilliant.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

During Katherine Hepburn’s time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.

When you are authentic, you create a certain energy… people want to be around you because you are unique.

There’s not a lot of light on television.

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It’s the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we’re relaxed.

I’m the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

I’m just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.

How do I think the industry’s changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I’m really enjoying that part – that’s my evolution.

I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am.

Don’t worry about the room being messy! Everything can’t be perfect – you have to let some things go, and it’s better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I’ve been told that. But I feel I’m the least intimidating person possible.

Women who make the choice to have grey hair – I think that’s beautiful.

As I celebrate life, I can’t help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn’t get to meet her grandchildren, but I’m determined to watch mine grow up.

I don’t think that youth should be glorified.

I’m really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I’m a nut.

People that are 40, they don’t sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they’re covering gray, but they don’t talk about it that way. They’re going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.

We don’t need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can’t watch that stuff.

Sexiness comes with maturity.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I’ve been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I’ve read the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ and Rumi, and these are very important.

In 1984, I starred in ‘Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,’ my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was ‘too southern’. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I’m amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

I feel like I’ve had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It’s not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It’s a good wish.

I think there is sexy. And then there’s tacky sexy. When you’re young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it’s not even tacky when you’re young. But when you get older, it’s just tacky.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

I hate auditions.

I never ‘shunned’ L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it’s definitely harder.

Being a model, you know, it’s a short-lived vocation.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

Not many college students know what they want to do.

I’m not a huge TV person. I don’t like having the noise when I’m doing other things unless I’m really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.

I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That’s all I really care about.

I eat healthy, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy myself. I eat ice cream and chocolate, as my metabolism is pretty fast because I work out so much.

I’m an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I’m hot because I just think that that’s a term that I don’t have to deal with anymore.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

I’m actually a pretty clean-cut person.

I don’t go to enough movies.

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.

Oh, all southern women say they’re sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don’t spread the jam right, you’re always sorry. I’ve had people tell me to stop saying it so much!