Quotes By Reba McEntire

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.

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.

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

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

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

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

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.

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

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

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

I've never turned my back on country music.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

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

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

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.

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

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.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

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.

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

I just love motherhood.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

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 was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.