Andie MacDowell

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family. ”

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything. ”

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six. It's very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinness which is, after all, only natural to a few people. ”

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have. ”

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down. ”

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me. ”

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40. ”

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did. ”

I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am. ”

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor. ”