All I ever wanted to be was happy.
And suddenly, I guess, after Oliver was almost two, and I hadn't worked for three years. I thought you know what? Maybe I'm done. Maybe it's over.
And the kids didn't want us to get married either by the way.
Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don't.
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
But it's, you know, it becomes - it's a narrower field as you get older and there are roles that come along and some of them are just not that good, so what's the point you know? That's kind of the way I look at it.
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
During that period, I went into a period of depression. A fear and anxiety and non-specific anxiety attacks, of where I actually didn't know - I lost my smile, like I had to force it.
I became this, you know, the darling of the critics and the darling of the, you know, the tabloids and, you know. I knew, I even wrote in my diary at that time, you know this is so temporary that they build you up only to tear you down.
I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that but I have read things upon occasion and some of it is true and some of it isn't true, you know.
I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
I mean I like cooking and being with my kids and, you know, all of this stuff and taking care of the home and, you know, men like to go do other things. It's normal. It's natural. But we're evolving.
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.
I said because when you are with a character, and you love this character, and you're an audience, and you're just - you know, it's great, you're - she can take her to the moon.
I was a dancer and I had like really great posture and everything and I used to when I was a little girl in school I wanted like to get down and be cool but, you know, I just wasn't you know. I was always erect and I don't know. I just was not part of that group.
I was a dancer. So I started dancing.
I was a little nervous when I went on, and I'm a little bit dyslexic, which means I'm not a lot dyslexic. But I do switch words sometimes and numbers sometimes.
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?
I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.
I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.
I've always been a little different anyway. I never quite fit in at least from my own perspective, you know.
If I want to be happy, what's the point of looking at things you can't control?
If you are here because you want some scandalous tell-all book where I'm talking about other people in the industry, that's not the book I want to write.
In seventh grade I tried to be. I tried to be like a tough girl, you know, and like wear double socks and, you know, like loafers and hang out and wear a lot of eye makeup and stuff but it just, I don't know, I just couldn't ever - I never felt like I fit in. I still don't.
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.
My mother loved the Bible.
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.
So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.
So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.
So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.
That would be a drag, you know, so I love being where I am and who I am and how old I am. We have no choice.
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
The whole purpose was not to make this book and tell any stories, do you know what I mean, or hide something about myself? I certainly didn't in the book do you know. I really faced certain things, which I believe obstacles can only be faced.
To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.
We had both been married. I've been married twice. It didn't work. He was married once. That didn't work either. And, you know, we were at a time where we had kids and thought well, you know, what actually would it do to get married? I like being independent. I like being his girlfriend.
We hang out. We cook. We laugh. The kids play poker. I'm usually hovering, bringing something to the table. Chris will play the guitar. We just love being in each other's company.
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
We've created a union, a family and our lives are very secure.
What's important is to connect myself with people so we can share experiences together. It eliminates the veil of success.
When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
Goldie was discovered by an Agent while dancing in the chorus line on an Andy Griffith Show special in 1967.
Goldie was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" in 1983 for her role as Paula in the film Best Friends.
Goldie can now be seen on TV commercials promoting "Family Dinners, stay in touch with your children."
Playboy magazine featured Goldie on it’s cover in November of 1984.
Goldie married Gus Trikonis on May 16, 1969, and they divorced in 1976. She then married Bill Hudson in July, 1976. They had two children together, Oliver and Kate Hudson, before divorcing in 1979. She met her partner, Kurt Russell, in 1983 and they have one son, Wyatt Russell, born in 1986.
Goldie went to Montgomery Blair High School which is located in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Sally Field, per Goldie is one of her very best friends.
In Goldie's career she has been known as Goldie Jeanne Hawn or Goldy Jeanne Hawn.
Goldie did not attend the 1970 Academy Awards for which she won for Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower. Raquel Welch accepted the statue for her.
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