Reba McEntire's Quotes

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I had lots of breaks.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.