Katherine Heigl
I'm terrible with patience.Collection: Patience
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Cool
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.
I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.
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.
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
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.
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
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.
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.
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.
There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
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.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
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.
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
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.
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
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.
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.
I've had paranoid panic attacks.
My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
The world is still very bigoted.
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.
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.
I don't have a lot of discipline.
If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.
I pride myself on being kind.
I'm not terribly sentimental.
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.