Katherine Heigl quotes:

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'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

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 just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

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.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

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.

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.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

I like going on location for films.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I've had paranoid panic attacks.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

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.

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.

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!

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.'

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

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.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

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.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

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?

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

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.

I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

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?'

I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!

I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

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.

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 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.

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.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

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.

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.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

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.

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.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

The world is still very bigoted.

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.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

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 look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

I pride myself on being kind.

I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I'm grateful people think I'm beautiful or sexy, and I suppose it's better than the alternative, but I do try to fight it a bit so it's not all people see me as. And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size.

I'm not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

I'm terrible with patience.

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

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.

My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

Now Ive got this moniker that Im the foot-in-mouth gal, and I keep thinking, In what way? Because I said something you dont agree with? Because I said something you dont like? Im just telling you my opinion. I hate the idea that I cant be honest about how I feel about things because its going to piss somebody off who feels differently. That seems preposterous to me.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

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.

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

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.