Goldie Hawn

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

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.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

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.

My mother loved the Bible.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

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?

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

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

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

A fearful child cannot learn.

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

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

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know.

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

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

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