Top 100 Anne Hathaway Quotes
#1. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.
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#2. Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.
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#3. You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
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#4. I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
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#5. I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.
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#6. There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.
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#7. I did work at Christie's for a couple of weeks, getting ready for 'The Devil Wears Prada,' getting people coffee and doing whatever they needed around the office. It was amazing. I got to see some wonderful art, and everybody was really nice. It was great.
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#8. I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!
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#9. I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.
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#10. If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.
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#11. [ Working Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
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#12. I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.
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#13. When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.
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#14. I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film ... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.
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#15. I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
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#16. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
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#17. I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
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#18. It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
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#19. I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.
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#20. I'll start with one healthy kid, but I'd like to have a few naturally and adopt.
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#21. I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.
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#22. I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.
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#23. I'll wear my mom jeans in public that haven't been tailored 'just so' yet, just because they feel good.
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#24. I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
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#25. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
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#26. Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.
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#27. Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.
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#28. I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.
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#29. My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.
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#30. Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time
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#31. I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.
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#32. When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl ... it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood ... But ... my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny.
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#33. I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.
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#34. And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.
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#35. A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I just go: 'I'm a lot of things. Just because I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role.
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#36. When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.
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#37. I try not to date where I work. It makes life easier. I don't say no to anybody because I'd hope that people wouldn't say no to me just because I'm an actor - but they'd have to be pretty extraordinary.
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#38. I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
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#39. Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
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#40. I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.
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#41. I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!
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#42. Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?
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#43. My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
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#45. I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.
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#46. My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.
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#47. So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.
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#48. I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things ...
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#49. What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.
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#50. Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
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#51. I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.
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#52. I'm a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It's all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy.
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#53. I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'
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#54. My whole M.O. in my 20s was being in as many different types of films as you can. Working with as many different types of directors as you can. I think, in part, that's what I wanted to do as an actor.
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#55. Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.
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#56. I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won't do it.
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#57. When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.
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#58. Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.
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#59. I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
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#60. I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.
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#61. A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
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#62. I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don't know which side she's going to come down on. She's totally independent. And let's face it, she's badass.
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#63. A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.
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#64. I think the only thing in life that you really have to worry about is how you treat other people. If you mess up and treat someone else badly, you apologize, and you don't apologize for anything else. Be yourself and go for it.
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#65. I love employment, and it's never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.
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#66. I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
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#67. I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
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#68. I still can't believe I'm the girl who got to play Fantine.
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#69. My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.
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#70. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.
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#71. Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
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#72. Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
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#73. If young kids choose to have me as a role model ... what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.
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#74. I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
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#75. Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
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#76. There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.
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#77. The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.
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#78. There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
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#79. Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
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#80. Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.
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#81. I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.
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#82. Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
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#83. I am a girl without game. I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.
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#84. I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.
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#85. When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.
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#86. I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.
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#87. I know it's not the right thing to say, but I'm really happy with my body.
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#88. There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.
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#89. You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of the day.
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#90. When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.
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#91. Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.
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#92. I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.
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#93. The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
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#94. Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself
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#95. 'One Day' is definitely heartbreaking in a few ways, but one of the main ways is that my character and Jim Sturgess's character are just people from two different worlds who love each other in so many ways and can't quite seem to get it together.
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#96. Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
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#97. I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
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#98. I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it's amazing how beautiful every day can be.
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#99. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
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#100. I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.
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