Author Profile
Andie MacDowell
1958 • American • Actress
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesAs a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.— Andie MacDowell
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.— Andie MacDowell
I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.— Andie MacDowell
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.— Andie MacDowell
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.— Andie MacDowell
My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.— Andie MacDowell
I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.— Andie MacDowell
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.— Andie MacDowell
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.— Andie MacDowell
I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!— Andie MacDowell
I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.— Andie MacDowell