Meg Ryan Quotes

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

If you empower women, you can change the world.

Once women find a way to form community, everyone reaps the rewards.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether or not they're seen is another issue.

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!