Quotes from Meg Ryan

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

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

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.

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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