Renee Zellweger Quotes

I’m attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion – and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

If I’m going to give up the single life, it better be good – because I’m having fun!

In a partner I’m looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I’m looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.

Exercise is my outlet, the one thing I do during the day that’s mine and mine alone. I don’t want to work with a trainer, and I don’t want to go with friends to the gym. It’s my solitude, and I need it.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I’m not single, I’m busy. That’s my line.

I’m taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

When you think about it, when you’re single you are not deprived in any way – if anything, it’s a pretty self-indulgent lifestyle. It’s selfish: You can make your own decisions and indulge yourself on an impulse.

Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that. I never have expectations like, ‘When I’m 19 I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25 I’m going to do that’. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

I want to learn more. I want to know more. That’s what taking this time is about. I’m curious about so many things, but haven’t had occasion to be exposed to them enough to really appreciate them.

I can’t think of anything more horrible than sharing what I’m doing all day!

Actually, I’m delighted when someone confesses to being surprised to discover something about me. It means I’ve been very successful in maintaining what is most precious to me – keeping the things that really matter in my life unexposed.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

I believe in love, but I don’t sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work, but I don’t have a lot of indulgences. I like nice wine, and I like sushi, and those things aren’t cheap. Well, they can be, but I don’t think I’d go for the cheap fish!

Once you’ve reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it’s all the same. I don’t have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.