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“I’m a hippie at heart. I wear the clothes, and they’re the best. And the music is incredible, too.”

“I can’t wait until it’s time to find fun and stylish maternity wear. I’m actually more excited about dressing as a pregnant woman. You get to present something so completely female.”

(On love scenes)
“He [Chris]‘s cool with it. He and Matthew got along really well, too. It was really easy.”

“I really don’t know what it was about. I saw it for the first time in our house, and my dad fell asleep during the first half of the movie. I didn’t care because it was so bad. He woke up at the climatic point, and we started laughing our heads off. Here it is my first movie and we’re all laughing about how horrible it was. That’s a perfect example of how cool my family is.”

“Growing up I thought my mom was the coolest mom thing on the planet.”

“We’d go home after parties and we’d have to laugh at how some of these people lived and how they treated their kids. It’s a business where people are so me me me, they forget where the focus should be”

“Being a mom is really hard, and you make mistakes all the time, and you have to just chug through it.”

“Sure, I get depressed. But I never feel like it’s a bad thing. That’s part of the journey in life, and if you have to go there, you go there.”

“I always knew I wanted to act. And there was never a thought about not doing it because my mother was such a big star. We were just encouraged to do what we wanted.”

“Chris and I love to sing and play the guitar when we sing him [Ryder] a lullaby. We sing him these really pretty songs like George Jones’ ‘Just One More’. It sounds good. And it makes him sleepy, but the song is about an alcoholic. Maybe we shouldn’t be singing that to a five-month-old child!”

“Doors may have opened for me, but no one hires me unless they think I can do the job.”

(On How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days)
“I think every woman will completely be able to relate to it. We’ve either done it and we will all sit there and laugh about it, because women have great senses of humor, or we’ll have a friend who has done it or been there or is in the process of doing it. And I think it goes both ways. Every man will be able to relate to it, too, and every man has done the same thing. They do just as many things to drive women away.”

“I’m superstitious… but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious”

“I’m a sap. I cry at commercials. I’m always crying at songs. I cried when the ant died in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I cry all the time.”

“I have zero problems when people say, ‘God, you look like your mother.’ I go, ‘Well, great! Thanks!”

On The Kids in Raising Helen
“The sweetest moment was when the kids were done and when we finished with the kids. It was just so emotional. And I looked at Abby [Breslin, who plays five-year-old Sarah] and she was crying. I mean it was so difficult. We just hugged forever and I told them I loved them. And it was just… it really made the whole experience that much more special; to know that those kids took something from that experience.”

On The Kids in Raising Helen
“It was great. They were so professional and yet, still kids. Abigail was so adorable and so good. She cried at the drop of a hat. She was so focused. When she had to do what she had to do, she really worked hard at it. And Spencer was hysterical. And Hayden is at that age that I remember so well-13-ish where you want to be an adult and want to be taken seriously, but people don’t treat you like it, so you overcompensate.”

“When you’re married, you can get too settled. I personally like to keep my husband on his toes. How do I do that? Flirting.”

• QUOTES FROM OTHERS

Stella McCartney
“Kate has that hippie chick-meets-rock chick kind of thing. But she also has elements of class that layer on top of all that she does, elements which obviously come from her upbringing and from her own self. So basically she’s just a cool chick.”

Garry Marshall
“She was interested in the fact that I had stayed married to the same woman for 41 years. I told her if we’re in the middle of a scene and Chris calls, she should take it. She seems to truly want to have a life.”

Goldie Hawn
“I knew I couldn’t fail at work, I knew I couldn’t fail at relationships, but I knew I could have failed with my family by raising kids who were dysfunctional. Katie’s a spectacular person. She had talent from the beginning.”

Goldie Hawn
“We always knew Kate was going into the industry, but what we wanted was that she would not struggle. Because it would be very tough having a mother who had done well, and who had all this adoration, and she would be the child that didn’t. My prayers were always that she would trump me, and that’s what’s happening. Well, I don’t know if it’s trump or not at this point. But she’s a star.”

Matthew McConaughey
“She’s incredibly comfortable with herself, especially with her sexuality. A lot of actresses can look at the romantic scenes – not just sex scenes but even kissing and touching – as almost taboo if they have a serious relationship in real life. But Kate’s so comfortable with her sexuality, there was no preciousness there.”

Goldie Hawn
“We love food. We’re passionate about food and taste. But Katie’s main concern was that she have a happy baby. She didn’t have the preoccupation with self, and that is what I most admire about Kate. She was a joyful mother-to-be.”