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Reese Witherspoon

lines on the record: 33
first: 2018-02-14
most recent: 2018-02-14
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Tired a lot. I gotta learn. You know, that is Sean Diverth, the book of BS, the year of BS. I was like, I need a year of no. Cheryl Stamberg wants you to lean in. I'm like, I need to sit down.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you're a person, I think a positive person and an outgoing person and you love life, you want to say yes all the time and it can be debilitating.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the more we give voice to it. Like you just did so beautifully, and the more that we make art about it and tell stories you were saying, it's great to see a story about it. It changes consciousness. That's why”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was incredible when we did big little lies, how we would sit around all the women and talk about each one of us had very specific experiences. It was a range of experiences, but there wasn't a woman there that hadn't been affected by abuse. Not one of those women. And it's why we decided. I'm hard pressed to find any group of women where you can't say it happened to my sister. It happened to my mom. I saw this. And there's a range of abuse. There's verbal, there's psychological, there's so many things other than physical. That can be completely detrimental to your self worth, your self esteem, and your progress.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could never be the person I am today. I was a different person, too. It changed who I was on a cellular level. The fact that I studied for myself, the fact that none of leaving those situations is easy because it's wrought with self-doubt, particularly if someone damages your self-esteem, which is I mean, people say to me, they knew me then, they're like, I didn't have self-esteem. And I'm a different person now, and it's part of the reason I can stand up and say, Yes, I'm ambitious, and yes, because someone tried to take that from me.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A line got drawn in the sand and it got crossed, and my brain just switched and I knew it was going to be very difficult, but I just couldn't go any further. But it was profound and I was young, really young.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Understand it. And I know, I know I have angels. And I have to talk about it because it wouldn't be. It wouldn't acknowledge the kind of to me that's divine intervention, or somebody took care of me that day. I wouldn't be here It was that violent and difficult.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a really bad car wreck six years ago. I was hit by a car. I was actually jogging. I was hit by a car. And I got really badly hurt and bad head injury. And I walked away with no broken bones, no head trauma, no internal bleeding, and the doctors were like, I don't”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's important. I think I sat in so many meetings with Studio Heads going over scripts in my early part of my career where I was in romantic comedy after romantic comedy and hearing things like, yeah, but would audiences like it if she did that or she can't kiss another man or be in a relationship with, she can't look like she likes two guys at once And I don't know, it was just so much, and it was always a group of men telling me what they thought was a likable quality in a woman. You know, when I did independent films, I would do things like election, which is, Tracy Flick is lots and lots of things, but not necessarily likable. And I had a hard time getting jobs after that performance because studio heads thought I was. Crazy too ambitious.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and when you're the leader of a group and you're number one on a call sheet, it's imperative that you set the tone that, and I watch you do it on set, you know, and you, it's like your attitude, the way you treat people, the way you respond to people, it's so important”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I feel like the minute you take off the work, And you have to just have a glass of wine with somewhere, just have a meal. You start to see who they really are, and I just think it cuts down every barrier, every intention. Now, I'm not going to say I haven't worked with people who are, you know, But of course, but it really diffuses a lot by setting a tone.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And trauma in your body I remember I had to call my mom and I said, because there was a scene where I have to go into the room and large earnest. Dying, and I said, I need you to tell me what happened that day. So she got to tell me, and she had never told me. And it was just so powerful It turns out my mother's birthday is Cheryl's mother's birthday, too. So that's all these points of connection. And it's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read about grief and figuring out yourself and how you build yourself up again. And I love that she said, you know, she walked back to the woman. She knew her mother wanted her to be. And yeah, in a way, I feel like my mother and I kind of closed the circle on that. Laura was a good one.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, in a way, I think I was walking in my mother's shoes, yeah, because she, well, no, she was very expressive when we were little that she missed her mother every single day. Part of the way Mindy and I know each other is through wild, we really connected through that movie and talking about it. Yeah, and my mother lost her mom to a brain aneurysm when my mom was 20. And I think it was the sadness of her life. She still cries about it. If it comes up, it's very real. For her. And so I think in a way, Wilde was a very healing process for me to discover my mother's grief and to talk to her about it. I would call her.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is so exciting, and they're all about women at the center of the stories and female creators behind the scenes, and it just feels like an incredible shift for me and momentum that I've never had before. Particularly in TV, which is so exciting to me.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The way I mean, I was saying earlier, like, I had sold one pilot television show three years ago. It didn't get made. We sold six shows to different networks in the past two weeks.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then at the top of the Emmys, they said there were 450 scripted shows that year. And I thought, and we even got the opportunity to stand there. But I meant when I said, I thought it was incredible year for women to see people like Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lang. Elizabeth Moss, a handmaid's tale. These stories that were putting women at the center, but also that women were the architects behind the scenes. Getting these stories out there, champion these stories, I think that was a great, one of the great stories that came out of the MEs this year. And it felt different than any award show I'd ever been to. I think some other award shows need to”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it just was completely unexpected. I mean, the audience response was amazing to the material. We had no idea we'd received that way. But at the top of the...”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but she just ascended and she made it even better. It was there. She made it even better. She was fantastic. She was wonderful. She is. And she's a beautiful, generous, lovely person. And just to see her have that moment of ascendancy and that moment in the light, it was just, it was too much. I just started to cry. Somebody made a meme out of it, of me, like basically levitating it. But his file is exploding out my face.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, she's my friend. I just know every part of her. I know every struggle she's had. I've had so many joys in her life and there's no better feeling than watching this person that you love.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't know. Why do we diminish our accomplishments? Why do we do it to each other? We do it in front of men. I've started going into business rooms and going, yeah, I deserve it.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think now being older, I had this epiphany at 40. I was like, you know how basketball players like NBA players are always talking about how great they are? Why don't women talk about how great they are all the time? You know, LeBron James isn't like, oh no, not me”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that this idea of putting women in a siloing name off, figuring out ways to keep them smaller or make them feel less or feel less accomplished, it's like it's just systematic and we have to start talking about it in order to change the ideas that we are going to see in young women for sure.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Even I've been recently there was a study at Harvard that said women would deny their ambition in order to see more appealing to men. And I thought, we need to start talking about and reframing this word ambition because it isn't about being selfish, it isn't about being self-serving. It's actually about wanting to create more and do better for communities, schools, the world, the government, and reframe it, that an ambitious woman is not a terrifying thing and it's not a repellent thing. I don't know, I just thought I wanted to open up a conversation about it.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was reading, there was a Columbia scientific study at Columbia about characteristics and women that people found appealing and unappealing and across the board ambition was considered an unappealing aspect of femininity.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And look, we're all one an environmental disaster, one terrifying world event from being in the same position. And it's, to me, unconscionable how we treat people without compassion because there, but for the grace of God, go any of us.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For me, it's women's stories and trying to create opportunities for women to tell their stories because I think we cannot expect change in our society and culture if we hear the same, we see the same movies by the same 20 directors over and over and over again. And for me, it's been a mission for the past five years to creep better parts for women, but also opportunities for women of color, women of different generations to tell their stories in any capacity, whether they're taking photographs or they're doing podcasts like that. Just shine a light on those people”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think our culture is more alive and vibrant than it's ever been, and I think we're waking sleeping ideas that have been dormant for a long time, and it's terrifying and thrilling and exciting, but I think social media has opened up a conversation that was not possible even 10 years ago. And I'm seeing this collective, I mean, just this is my perspective, I'm seeing women talking about things that they never spoke about. And they're feeling powerful because they're actually getting heard.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ava to make us be the supernatural warriors that are, I mean, the costumes are incredible, the story, the messaging. I think it's going to really.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My character, Mrs. Wetz, is sort of an innocent. She's the newbie in the group, very deferential to both of you, and she's kind of almost borderline antagonistic towards the children. I'm sort of the child.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Deserving of it. Is she such a sweet? And hardworking, and but you think I got emotional every time I thought about the little girls who don't see themselves, just to your point.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And having Storm Reed be this little girl in the middle of a big Disney movie. I'd never, I mean, I've been in movies for a long time and I've never seen a little girl of color be in the center, a giant, giant movie. And I think about all the little girls out there. Going, oh, I can be in my own fantastic adventure?”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's absolutely, well, I mean, it's such a book about what is possible and hope and positivity and about good versus evil. And I think there have been many moments in time that it would be completely appropriate, but it seems so apropos right now to be talking about what do we cultivate in each other and how do we find our best selves.”
2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2018-02-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source