Goldie Hawn - biography

“We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.”

“Peter Sellers crossed into his work.  He was a great master.  Unfortunately, it mastered him.”

“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.”

“Monogamy is impossible these days, for both sexes.  I don’t know anyone who’s faithful or wants to be.”

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

“To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.”

“It’s like a souffle.  If it gets overdone, the souffle crashes.  That’s how delicate comedy is.  Like music - it’s as if I hear the beat in my head.”

“This is a business and I’m a commodity.  Barbra Streisand is a commodity.  Clint Eastwood is a commodity.  And they want that commodity to pay off.  They want the three cherries.”

“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?”

“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.”

“I never understood my husbands’ problems.  They couldn’t deal with the fact that I was a big star and making more money than they were.  Men are so sensitive.”

“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.”

“My mother loved the Bible.”

“A woman is exploited all the time.”

“I saw what happened to Elvis Presley, which is why I never wanted to be a star in the first place.”

“All I ever wanted to be was happy.”

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

“I don’t care what crown a guy wears, I don’t care if he’s president, the one person I was ever speechless around was Fred Astaire - the greatest dancer who ever lived.  He’s almost perfection.”

“I got a heart tattooed on my foot.  It’s my first tattoo.”

“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

“I noted that people are happy here in India.  When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.”

“I’m not afraid of my femininity and I’m not afraid of my sexuality.”

“It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.”

“My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small...  my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don’t want people to see how thin they are.”

“People like Brigitte Bardot can speak with their bodies.  I guess I speak with my face.”

“So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.”

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”

“Too bad she’s not queen of some country.  [On Ingrid Bergman]”

“We shouldn’t stop fighting for our rights but sometimes you just get so tired of attitudes, egoes, weaknesses.”

Goldie Hawn has appeared in the following films:
Cactus Flower (1969)
Butterflies Are Free (1972)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Foul Play (1978)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Best Friends (1982)
Swing Shift (1984)
Protocol (1984)
Wildcats (1986)
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Deceived (1991)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
CrissCross (1992)
The First Wives Club (1996)
The Banger Sisters (2002)