Top 100 Scarlett Johansson Quotes
#1. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.
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#3. I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work ...
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#4. I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.
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#5. I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.
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#6. It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
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#7. You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
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#8. I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality ... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.
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#9. I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.
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#10. Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.
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#12. I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady.
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#13. You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
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#14. I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.
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#16. I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.
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#17. I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.
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#18. When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.
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#20. I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.
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#21. They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.
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#22. It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.
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#23. I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.
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#25. If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people ... I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.
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#26. I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
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#27. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow - which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex.
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#28. I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.
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#29. Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
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#30. Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
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#31. I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.
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#32. I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.
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#33. You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.
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#34. I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines-never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news-trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
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#35. I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me ... no way!
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#36. I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
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#37. What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?
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#38. I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.
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#39. If you have breakouts, it can be really healing, it's a little bit stinky, but if you're not sleeping over at your boyfriend's, it's really effective
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#40. I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
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#42. If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.
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#44. I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."
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#45. It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.
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#46. As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.
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#47. I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.
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#48. When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
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#49. I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
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#50. It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.
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#51. I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.
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#52. I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented.
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#53. Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.
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#54. I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.
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#55. I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.
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#56. I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual ... those people have always been close to my heart.
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#57. When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .
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#58. I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.
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#59. I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.
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#61. You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.
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#62. I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.
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#64. I'm very independent.
I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.
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#65. I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
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#66. I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
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#67. I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.
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#69. These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
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#70. [In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.
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#71. I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.
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#72. I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.
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#73. Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.
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#74. I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.
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#75. I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.
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#76. I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships ...
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#77. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'
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#78. My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.
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#79. There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .
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#81. LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
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#82. I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.
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#83. My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.
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#84. Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.
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#85. I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this."
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#86. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.
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#87. Obviously filming and working has consistently been a part of my life. I've never had a huge break of time when I wasn't working on something or promoting something.
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#88. It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?
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#89. For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.
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#91. I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.
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#92. Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.
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#94. Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.
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#95. I've never considered myself a femme fatale as I've never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.
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#96. There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.
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#98. I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
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#99. We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.
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#100. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.
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