I Wouldn't Be Honest If I Didn't Say My Mom. Apart From The Fact That She's My Mother, She's A Brilliant Comedian And A Force As A Producer. She Paved The Way For Women To Produce And Star In Their Own Films, And To Balance That With Being The Matriarch Of Our Family Is Really Inspiring.

-Kate Hudson

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Kate Hudson

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I Really Appreciate People Who Have Their Own Thing Going On And Stick To It - Super Authentic. The People Who Wear Something And You're Just Like "oh, It Looks So Good!" It's Because It's Them. They're Not Trying To Be Anything.

People

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Trying

I Did Not Like Leaving Them When They Were Little Or Big. You Have To Have Priorities Regarding What You Will Allow To Take You Away From Your Kid.

Kids

Priorities

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Obsession Is Such A Naughty Word - It's A Very Intense Word. I'm Obsessed With Music, Always Have Been. I Can't Lie. And I'm Obviously Obsessed With My Child, My Child's Life And The Little Things That He Does.

Children

Lying

Naughty

For An Everyday Makeup Look, I Usually Use Almay's Cc Cream, Then Concealer, Bronzer And Maybe A Bit Of Mascara. The Whole Thing Takes Me Ten Minutes. I Apply Everything With My Hands And Blend Like Crazy.

I Think Women Are Not Interested In Being Like "the Man" Or Having The Same Position As "the Man." Women Want To Be Women With Equal Rights. At This Point Now, We're Very Clear About That. I Don't Want To Be The Same As Him. I Want To Be Me With The Same Opportunity. So I Think That's The Difference Of Today Than The Fight That My Mom Had To Fight, Which Was A Little Bit Different And As Complicated.

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I'm Working 18 Hour Days And I'm Feeling Guilty Not Being Able To Be There When All Those Times I Want To Be Mother.

Mother

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Want

I Talked To Ex-wives Of Musicians Of The '70s For Research. They're The Funniest People In The World, Yet There Is This Sad, Beautiful Thing In Their Eyes That Says They've Seen More Than They Could Ever Possibly Tell You

Beautiful

Eye

People

If It's A Big Hit, Fantastic. If It's Not, Then It's Not. I Don't Worry About My Work

Worry

Fantastic

Bigs

Just Because You're Wearing Something That's Like A Gown Or What Have You, You Should Wear It Like You Can Take Your Shoes Off And Put Your Feet Up And What I Realized Is That Most People I Love Fashion-wise, They Wear Clothes Like That. An Ease To It. I Thought That Was A Nice Tool.

Nice

People

Like You

You Do Get The Pregnant Mush-brain... You Know What It's Like? It's Like Getting Stoned.

Pregnancy

Brain

Knows

You Don't Wear Stuff For Other People; You've Got To Wear It For Yourself.

People

Stuff

My Mom Is 70, And She's Still Wearing The Things She Wore In The 80s. I Appreciate People Like That, Who Know Who They Are And What They Like To Wear - And Have Fun With It. Like, You Can See That They Enjoy Expressing Themselves.

Mom

Fun

People

I Cherish My Clothes And I Remember What Seasons They're From. But Someone Said To Me As I Was Having Trouble With Styling A Dress That I Had Bought, And He Said To Me: "throw It On The Floor." And I Was Like, "what? It's Like A Gown." He Goes, "throw It On The Floor," And I Did, And He's Like That's How You Need To Wear Everything. You Wear Clothes Like You Throw Them On The Floor.

Remember

Trouble

Cherish

Only In Failure Do You Reach Success. You Can Only Get To The Good Stuff When You've Done The Hard Stuff.

Done

Stuff

Hard

When You See Something, You Are Supposed To Tell The Energy What Year It Is And That They Don't Belong There.

Years

Energy

I Smoke, Isn't That Terrible?

Terrible

Smoke

I Think That, Like Anything, People Take Their Image And What They Want Somebody Else To Be And Then People Just Run With It. And When You Really Know The Person And Really Love The Person, You Recognize That That Person Is Nothing Like That.

Running

Thinking

People

Right Now Everyone Is Able To Have A Real Voice And Have It Be Nice And Loud. Being Loud Is A Really Important Thing Right Now. It's An Amazing Thing To Watch. It's Important Because Making Noise Makes Change.

Nice

Real

Important

I Went On Countless Auditions. I Begged My Parents Until I Finally Was Allowed To Be In A Theatrical Play When I Was 13. It Was The Most Important Thing In My Life

Play

Parent

Important

I Auditioned On My Own. I Tried To Make A Mark For Myself Without Anybody's Help, Not Even Mom's

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Mother

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I Don't Like Working Out With Lots Of Makeup Because I Don't Like It Getting Into My Pores.

Makeup

Work Out

Being Active And Good Health Is The Most Important Beauty Regime Because That Will Affect You For The Rest Of Your Life.

Important

Rest Of Your Life

Good Health

I'm Not Interested In Being Fearful. I'm Not A Good Flyer, But That Doesn't Stop Me.

Flyers

Not Interested

Fearful

I'm Not Really Single. I Mean I Am, But I Have A Son. Being A Single Mother Is Different From Being A Single Woman.

Mom

Mother

Mean

Alec Baldwin Is An Incredible... I Mean This Guy Is A Tour De Force When You Talk About People That Are Generous And Available And Somebody You Could Approach And I Have Ideas.

Mean

Ideas

People

The Happier I Am, The Better My Skin Is. Any Woman Knows When They Are Over Exerting Themselves, Whether It Is Emotionally Or Physically, You Can See It On Your Face.

Skins

Faces

Your Face

The Thing We Need To Work On As A Country Is Our Educational System. To Me, That Is Something That Our Generation Needs To Be Focused On. To Make Sure That For Our Next Generation, Every Child - No Matter What Background, No Matter What Ethnicity, No Matter Whether They're Whatever Gender - That They Are All Educated To Have Real Equal Opportunity. That's Number One For Me. But I Have No Question That If It's Not Our Generation That Will Make Sure That That Happens That It Will Be Our Children's Generation.

Country

Children

Real

I Have Always Been Fiery; I Go After Things. But What I Learned From My Mother Is To Step Back And Actually Experience Things That Are Happening. So For Me, It's About Meditating. My Everest Is To Have That Become A Real Part Of My Life.

Mother

Real

Steps

I'm Superstitious ... But Not Like Wear The Same Underwear For Two Weeks Superstitious.

Two

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Week

I've Had Friends Who've Lied To Me, I've Had Friends Who've Done Things Behind My Back, I've Had People Steal From Me - And It Doesn't Stop Me From Trusting.

People

Behind My Back

Done

Somebody Can Become A Celebrity For Being Stupid. That Is What It's Turned Into

Stupid

Being Stupid

I Sometimes Feel Like When You're Talking To Boys, They Just Hear Certain Keywords… But If You Had A Bubble Above Their Head, They'd Be Thinking About Game Scores, Masturbation And Food.

Boys

Thinking

Talking

To Do High Fashion, You Have To Go Into A Little Bit Of A Higher Price Point.

Fashion

Littles

Higher

I'm Not A Big Fan Of Romantic Comedies, Believe It Or Not...

Believe

Fans

Comedy

The Dialogue Is Out There, The Veil Has Been Lifted. We All Know That There's A Ways To Go. We're Still Fighting Uphill Battles, And You Just Have To Hone In On Making Change, One Dialogue At A Time, One Course Of Action At A Time.

Fighting

Battle

Action

We Have To Remember That We're No Longer Competing For Anything Anymore. We're Not Competing For Life And Death. Now We Need To Go Back To When We Would Raise Our Children Together And Be Able To Have That Strong Unit Of Community, Which Is Our Strength. So Women Together, As A Tribe, To Me, Are The Strongest Force. But We Were Put In A Position To Have To Compete With Each Other, And That's Got To Stop. We've Got To Know That Whenever That Creeps Up In Our Head, That That's Not Our True Nature. That Was Something That Was Embedded In Us, And That Needs To Start To Go Away.

Strong

Children

Life And Death

I Try To Give Everyone Options Because No Matter What You Think You're Going To Wear, What You Actually Put On Depends Totally On How You Feel.

Thinking

Giving

Trying

I'm Pretty Comfortable With My Body. I'm Imperfect. The Imperfections Are There. People Are Going To See Them, But I Take The View You Only Live Once.

Inspirational

Beauty

Beautiful

Never Worry About Bad Press. All That Matters Is If They Spell Your Name Right.

Inspirational

Women

Names

When In Doubt, Wear White. I Think White Is A Very Important Color Just Spiritually, And I Think When You're Feeling That Way White Is A Great Color To Wear.

Thinking

Feelings

Doubt

It's Kind Of A Funny World We Live In Today With Tabloids And All. I Feel There's So Much Negativity Out There And People Sense That People Only Want To Read Things That Either Are Controversial Or Negative, Therefore You End Up Dealing With People Lying About Your Life And Having To Answer To Things That Become Ridiculous With An Onslaught Of Lies And You Have To Answer To Them.

Lying

People

Negativity

I Don't Believe [monogamy] Is Realistic. But, I Believe That We, As People, Have The Power To Make It Happen.

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People

Realistic

I'm A Big Rings Person...and Bracelets...and Earrings. I Love All Of It [laughs]. One Time, I Was Getting Off An Airplane And I Had Been Traveling For Like A Month In Europe, And I Came From The Airplane Right To My Mom's House Who I Hadn't Seen In Awhile, And She Looked At Me And She Goes, "is It Possible To Fit Any More Jewelry On You? Is That Actually Possible?" And I Looked Down And, Because When I Travel I Don't Like To Pack My Jewelry So I End Up Wearing A Ton Of It, And I Had Just Had Everything On Me. And I Love Buying Jewelry When I Travel - So There Was A Lot.

Airplane

Laughing

House

I Have Such Faith In The Millennial Generation, Because They Just Don't Think Like Other Generations Do. They Really Don't. And I Truly Believe It's Going To Be A Phenomenal Thing To Watch, Because They're Very Outspoken. They Are Living In A World Right Now Where Equality Is Something That The Young Kids Are Supporting. It's Just What Their Focus Is. Equality Is Everything To The Kids. At Least That's What I'm Witnessing And It's An Amazing Thing To Watch.

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Kids

Thinking

I Realized That My Skin Was Always The Best When I Had Only Been Cleaning It, I Hadn't Been Moisturizing That Much And I Hadn't Been Going To A Facialist.

Skins

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I Have Never Done A Thriller, And It Will Just Be Really Fun For Me To Heave And Pant And Run And Climb And Break Windows And Scream Every Once In A While

Running

Fun

Hiking

In Certain States There's A Statute Of Limitation On Women Who Have Been Raped. How Do You Do That To A Woman? If They Are Hiding Something For 10 Years That They Finally Have The Courage To Come Forward And Talk About, How Could You Take That Away From Her? And That Person Should Still Be Held Accountable. There's So Much About This That We Should Always Be Talking About. There Are So Many Layers. And It Happens Every Day, All The Time.

Hiding

Limitation

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

Relationship

Loses

Technology Allows Us To Weed Out A Lot Of The Extraneous Circumstances That Can Happen In Certain Environments. If You Have An Opportunity To Say, "i'm Going To Be In Charge Of My Own Narrative. I'm Going To Be The One Who Sees That This Is Ok For Me," Like Anything Else, It Just Gives You A Position Of Feeling Like You Can Be In Charge Of Those Things.

Weed

Technology

Opportunity

No Matter How Far You Take It With Your Friends, Whether You're Fighting With Them Or You Hate Them For Two Months, You Just Really Need Them, Because They're The Ones Who Teach You The Most About Yourself.

Friendship

Hate

Fighting

I Think For All The Women Who Are Working Parents It's Difficult To Balance Your Work-life And Your Home-life. You Make Obvious Sacrifices Because You Really Just Want To Be With Your Family.

Home

Sacrifice

Thinking

If There Is One Thing I Will Never Have, It Is An Eating Disorder. I Won't Have Girls - Even If It Is Just One Or Two Who Care - Thinking That. Because It Is A Serious Sickness, Not Something To Plaster On The Cover Of A Magazine. And I Am The Opposite. I Want Girls To Love Themselves. I Want Them To Feel Good About Who They Arethe Thing Is, I'm Lucky Because I Was Loved. But I Have Seen So Many Young Women Who Can't Feel Good About Themselves Because They Just Don't Have That Love.

Girl

Thinking

Opposites

The Reason I Trust So Much Is That I Don't Feel Like I Have Anything To Hide. If Somebody Betrays That Trust, It Could Never Be So Bad, Because I Don't Keep Any Secrets.

Secret

Reason

Betray

I'm Not Afraid Of Heights. I Rock Climb. I Can Repel Off The Side Of A Building.

Rocks

Height

Sides

Just As It Takes Work To Be In A Relationship, So It Takes Work To Not Be In A Relationship.

Relationship

[what's Beautiful About My Mother Is] Her Compassion, How Much She Gives, Whether It Be To Her Kids And Grandkids Or Out In The World. She's Got A Sparkle.

Inspiring

Beautiful

Mom

Paris Was Incredible. Everything About It For Me, From Spending Hours Eating, Drinking And Talking To Walking Through The Streets...at That Time I Hadn't Seen That Sort Of Political Passion In The Youth, And I Got To Experience That First Hand.

Drinking

Passion

Hands

I'm The Kind Of Person Who, As Much As I Like Clothes In Real Life Because It's A Fun Expression Of Who You Are And Everybody Kind Of Enjoys Wearing Things That Make Them...well, In Movies You're Wearing Things That Aren't Necessarily The Things You Would Choose To Put On Or Wear.

Fun

Real

Clothes

I Got So Much Advice; I Just Started Tuning It Out. If One More Person Told Me What I Had To Do When The Baby Comes, I Was Going To Shoot 'em.

Baby

Advice

Ems

I'm A Sappy Romantic. I Don't Kiss Until The 40th Date. I Really Like To Take It Slow. I'll Present You With A Piñata With My Hopes And Dreams.

Dream

Kissing

Hopes And Dreams

I Grew Up Dancing, And My Ballet Teacher Was Literally A Drill Sergeant; She Was So Strict And So Scary. And It Made Me A Better Dancer.

Teacher

Dancing

Dancer

Do You Know What A Blessing It Is To Make Movies That Make People Happy?

Blessing

People

Knows

A Lot Of My Life Involves Sitting And Having Make-up Put On; Whether It's On A Movie Set Or For A Photo Shoot. When You're Wearing That Kind Of Make-up All The Time Your Skin Does Get All This Sensitivity, So It's Important That You Make Sure You Have Make-up That Is Easy On Your Skin And Not Too Harsh For It.

Important

Skins

Doe

Alec Baldwin Made Us All Feel Like [we Could] Pal Around With Him And Come Up With The Best Scenarios Or Scenarios If You're A F - King Asshole. So Working With Him Was Alec Baldwin Does It The Best.

Kings

Doe

Pals

~my Favorite Thing About My Son Is That He Comes Home From School And The Clothes Go Flying! Like, Clothes Off, Right Down To The Undies.~

Home

School

Son

Love Is Scary, Like Anything Else, Whether You're Falling In Love, Whether You're Discovering Love In Something Else...if You're Really Going To Jump Off The Cliff, When You Meet Somebody That You Love You're Going To Jump Off That Cliff, You've Got To Give Them Everything. And When You Have A Kid, It's On A Much Greater Level.

Falling In Love

Love You

Kids

You Have To Know What You Need. You Need Someone Who's Going To Really Push You Hard. But They Also Need To Understand That, Emotionally, Sometimes Today's Not The Day To Push So Hard.

Needs

Today

Sometimes

I'd Like To Be Able To Experience Things. That's The Best Thing For My Work - To Be Somebody Who Does Get To Travel And Observe People.

People

Able

Doe

When You're Nursing And You're Working 18-hour Days, That's Pretty Hard

Nursing

Hours

Hard

What I Love The Most That I Really Want To Talk About Is That There Are Women In Business. They Are Incredibly Focused On Creating Their Own Businesses And Going Out There. That's Going To Be Their Life, Whether They Have Kids Or Not. And Then There Are Women Who Have Children That Kind Of Nobly Say, "you Know What? I'm Going To Be A Mom, And That's Going To Be My Work And My Love Of My Life." Which To Me, Is Just As Ambitious Of A Job And A Journey.

Mom

Children

Kids

I Don't Know If People Really Want To Know How I Feel About Drugs. I'm Not Such A Stickler. I Believe You Can Choose To Live Your Life Any Way You Want

Believe

People

Drug

If I Think About My Life, I'm Not Reluctant About Taking Chances. I'm Definitely Not Reluctant About Relationships.

Thinking

Chance

Reluctant

You Have People Who Can't Act And They Get All These Parts. Paris Hilton Falls Into Her Own Category. She's Made A Career Out Of It

Fall

Careers

Paris

It Would Be Horrible If There Was No Competition. It's What People Want To See - They Either Like You Or They Don't. Not Everybody Likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So You Have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

People

Competition

Would Be

Your Children Teach You So Much. It's A Real Mirror Of Yourself.

Children

Real

Motherhood

I Gained 60 Pounds, And I'm Proud Of It. Why Do I Need To Watch My Weight When I'm Pregnant? I Could Eat Whatever The Hell I Want To Eat.

Pregnancy

Watches

Needs

The American Dream Is A Romantic Notion But It's Newer - Not As Pretty. You Go To Europe, And It Says Something About The Type Of Person You Are. You're In Search Of Something More Intimate And More About Yourself.

Dream

Europe

Intimate

I Do Think That There Is An Innocence To People Who Are Searching For Things. It's A Beautiful Thing When You Leave Yourself Vulnerable To Discover Anything And Everything.

Beautiful

Thinking

Discovery

If I'm Not Feeling Good, I Load On Jewelry. It Gives Me Energy And Makes Me Feel Happy.

Giving

Feel Good

Feelings

I Have A Big, Flamboyant, Open Personality, Which I Think Is Why People May Be Saying These Nice Things About Me.

Nice

Thinking

People

Here's A History Lesson: When Men Took Power Of Their Lands, All Of A Sudden, Women Became A Prize. In Order For Us To Be Protected, We Had To Make Sure That We Had Our Partner On Our Side. We Were Put In A Position Where Our Vulnerability Was A Life And Death Scenario. And We Were Taken Advantage Of, And We Were Put In A Certain Place That We Had Never Been Put In Before.

Taken

Men

Life And Death

Honesty Will Never Break You.

Honesty

Break

Nobody Can Tell You To Do Things A Way That You Don't Want To Do Them. Nobody Can Say Really What's Right Or What's Wrong. It's Like Some People Don't Feed Their Children Meat. Some People Do. It's A Crazy World.

Children

Crazy

People

I Always Thought My Mother Was So Damn Cute!

Cute

Mother

Motherhood

I Slather Egyptian Magic Cream All Over My Face On Overnight Flights To Keep My Skin Hydrated.

Magic

Skins

Faces

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