People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.
— Goldie Hawn
'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.
Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are.
Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.
I just love good smells.
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.
I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me.
We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.
Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.
My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.
At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.
I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.
We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.
A fearful child cannot learn.
I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.
Women, by nature, are a certain way; they think a certain way. Women are web thinkers. We think wide... Why? Because we have children. Why? Because we were born as women to have children and to be able to take care of them. We do so many things at once.
When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive.
I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin.
People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.
I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.
I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!
I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.
I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.
'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.
We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow.
If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.
I guess I came to know this about myself: for better or worse, I don't give up.
Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know.
I've been married twice. It didn't work.
I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.
I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life.
Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.
I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.
Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.
I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian.
If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.
You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.
To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.
I just wanted to be normal. I wanted to have a normal life. I wanted to have children. And when I was picked out of a chorus line and cast in a TV series, I got anxious, so I took the bull by the horns and went to see a psychologist. And it was the greatest move I ever made.
After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.
The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.
I believe that life is about doing.
I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.
I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.
Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important.
You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones.
