I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
- Katherine Heigl
Want, Everybody, Figure, All My Time
I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
- Katherine Heigl
Kind, Really, Gal
I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
- Katherine Heigl
Secret, Keep, Agent, Secret Agent
The world is still very bigoted.
- Katherine Heigl
World, Very, Still, Bigoted
Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.
- Katherine Heigl
Eye, Think, Some, Public Eye
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
- Katherine Heigl
Habit, Smoking, Worst, I Quit
Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
- Katherine Heigl
Kind, Guys, About, Retarded
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
- Katherine Heigl
Excited, Tell, Great Story, Forum
I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.
- Katherine Heigl
Feet, Bad, Weak, Ankles
When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!
- Katherine Heigl
Doubt, Look, Behind, Ankles
I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
- Katherine Heigl
Very, Burning, Opinionated, Bras
I'm not terribly sentimental.
- Katherine Heigl
Terribly, Sentimental
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
- Katherine Heigl
Everyone, Like, Might, Ramifications
I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
- Katherine Heigl
Person, My Own, Grave, Digging
I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
- Katherine Heigl
Beauty, Proud, Which, Regimen
Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
- Katherine Heigl
Going, Going With The Flow, Flow
A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
- Katherine Heigl
Simple, Smoked, List, Cigarettes
The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.
- Katherine Heigl
More, Got, Celebrated
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
- Katherine Heigl
Boring, Rehab, Been, Eccentric
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
- Katherine Heigl
Right, Prepared, Imagined, Versus
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
- Katherine Heigl
Focus, Grateful, Still, Disappointing
I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
- Katherine Heigl
Explore, Different People, Personalities
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
- Katherine Heigl
Realist, Had, Putting, Biological
I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'
- Katherine Heigl
Feel, Idea, About, Assume
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
- Katherine Heigl
Always, Most, Fell, Bruise
When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.
- Katherine Heigl
Sickness, Exhausted, Some, Glorified
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
- Katherine Heigl
Some, Other, Loud, Feelings
I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
- Katherine Heigl
Thoughts, Think, Everybody, Feelings
I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.
- Katherine Heigl
Edge, Get, Created, Chaotic
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
- Katherine Heigl
Grateful, Be Grateful, How, Wonderful Life
I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.
- Katherine Heigl
Know, Like, Getting, Predictability
We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
- Katherine Heigl
Kind, Race, Need, Compassionate
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
- Katherine Heigl
Born, I Was Born, Before, Korean
My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
- Katherine Heigl
Best, Know, Some, Good Friends
So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.
- Katherine Heigl
Humility, Living, Very, Living Life
I've had paranoid panic attacks.
- Katherine Heigl
Paranoid, Had, Attacks, Panic
My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
- Katherine Heigl
Work, Career, Other, Besides
I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
- Katherine Heigl
Weekends, Reasonable, About, Strictly
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
- Katherine Heigl
Love, Think, Still, Mormon
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
- Katherine Heigl
Good, Everybody, Good Mother, Thin
I'm terrible with patience.
- Katherine Heigl
Patience, Terrible
I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.
- Katherine Heigl
Behind, Scare, Like, Terrible
I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.
- Katherine Heigl
Cool, Thought, Think, Sappy
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
- Katherine Heigl
Now, Just, Things, Realising
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
- Katherine Heigl
My Life, Natural, Been, Adoption
I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
- Katherine Heigl
Want, Came, I Came, Resemble
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
- Katherine Heigl
Play, Think, Big One, Innately
Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
- Katherine Heigl
Work, Going, Importance, Greater
Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
- Katherine Heigl
Stupid, Kid, Bad, Buzz
Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.
- Katherine Heigl
Hollywood, Identify, Easier
People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
- Katherine Heigl
Away, Been, Gotten, They Say
I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
- Katherine Heigl
Enjoy, Want, Things, Happening
I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
- Katherine Heigl
Love, Debate, I Love, Talker
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
- Katherine Heigl
Like, Yogurt, Looked, Lips
I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
- Katherine Heigl
Play, Different People, Spoiled
In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
- Katherine Heigl
Grateful, Career, Very, Opportunities
If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.
- Katherine Heigl
Work, Out, Industry, Work Out
I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!
- Katherine Heigl
Lazy, Too Much, Like, Free Time
I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
- Katherine Heigl
Some, Movie, Months, I Tried
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
- Katherine Heigl
Big, Grand, Make, Generally
I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
- Katherine Heigl
Moments, Away, Speaking, Generally
I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.
- Katherine Heigl
Think, Been, Sweetheart, Minute
If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
- Katherine Heigl
More, Going, Drinking, Smoking
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
- Katherine Heigl
Mother, Me, Advice, Consolation
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
- Katherine Heigl
Mouth, Tongue, Prefer, Kiss
I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!
- Katherine Heigl
Think, Always, I Think, Centre
Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.
- Katherine Heigl
Think, More, Than, Obvious
There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
- Katherine Heigl
Lot, Were, Many, Lean
I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
- Katherine Heigl
Over, Making, Public, Appearances
I pride myself on being kind.
- Katherine Heigl
Myself, Kind, Being, Pride
I like going on location for films.
- Katherine Heigl
Like, Going, Films, Location
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
- Katherine Heigl
Myself, Every Day, Weigh, Fat
It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.
- Katherine Heigl
Think, Normal, I Think, Lame
I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.
- Katherine Heigl
Confident, See, Back, Twenties
I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.
- Katherine Heigl
Hair, Like, Shake, One Way
I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
- Katherine Heigl
Mind, New, Like, Toe
I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
- Katherine Heigl
Love, Mother, I Love, Ultimately
I'm never satisfied with the way I look.
- Katherine Heigl
Look, Never, Way, Satisfied
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
- Katherine Heigl
Happy, More, Vocal, Tendency
It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
- Katherine Heigl
Think, More, Other, Worlds
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
- Katherine Heigl
Honest, Easy, Taken, Advantage
I don't have a lot of discipline.
- Katherine Heigl
Lot, Discipline
Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.
- Katherine Heigl
Career, Trying, Important, Obviously
I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.
- Katherine Heigl
Wife, Break, Very, Rules
If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.
- Katherine Heigl
Comfortable, Watch, Say, Focused
I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
- Katherine Heigl
Change, Like, One Thing, Exciting
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
- Katherine Heigl
Work, Marriage, Actually, Terrifying
I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
- Katherine Heigl
My Life, Having, Am, Better Mother
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