Quotes About Simplicity

People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn't a mansion. We didn't have a butler or a maid.

When I get home, I clean out the garage and play ball with my son. That's it.

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

My favorite days are at home. Spend some time in the garden, cook a couple of nice meals, watch a couple of movies. I'm pretty boring.

I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

I buy food and gasoline - that's it.

If I'm not working, I usually wear my gym gear and a fresh face.

Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it's a game.

In general, I don't like formality at all.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

It has taken me so long to understand my skin, but the formula that works best for me is, gentle and less is more. But I do cleanse my skin well at night with a good natural cleanser by Dr. Hauschka or Avalon Organics.

I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

I've always been trying to do as little as possible, and I'm getting better at it all the time.

I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.

I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous.

I'm not a glamorous girl. I don't know how to do my hair. I'm very bad with makeup.

I don't have a glamorous lifestyle.

I'm not a glamorous girl.

I've never lived the glamorous life.

I don't do glamorous things.