"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers"
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Then she swerves into the detail that does most of the cultural work: “I have four dogs, golden retrievers.” It’s not just cute. It’s a deliberate counter-image to the public-facing persona of an actress, the kind of specificity that reads as un-managed and therefore trustworthy. Golden retrievers carry a preloaded symbolism in American pop culture: approachable, family-coded, non-ironic affection. Four of them is excess, but a particular kind of excess - not “bling,” more like an overcommitment to caretaking and routine. It implies a home life that can’t be packed into a carry-on, a daily structure that resists the churn of bookings and PR.
The subtext is a quiet negotiation of identity: if fame makes your life portable, pets make it anchored. Richards is selling normalcy not as camouflage, but as relief - a soft refuge with fur and predictability when the world keeps asking her to be “on.”
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Richards, Denise. (2026, January 17). I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-to-be-at-home-because-i-just-travel-so-44205/
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Richards, Denise. "I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-to-be-at-home-because-i-just-travel-so-44205/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-to-be-at-home-because-i-just-travel-so-44205/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.




