Top 100 Ellen Page Quotes
#1. Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
Andy Serkis
#2. Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.
Callan McAuliffe
#3. I mentioned Ellen Page on Twitter in a tweet. It was like, "I met Ellen Page last night and she's so beautiful and lovely!" So then we started talking.
Evan Rachel Wood
#4. There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood
#5. You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both [with Ellen Page] loved the script and the book [Into the Forest], which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.
Evan Rachel Wood
#6. It was really cool to get to know her as a person and artist. And getting to act with her after a year of knowing her and be like, "Oh my god! There's a whole 'nother thing here!" It was really cool to be her friend and then see Ellen Page on the set.
Evan Rachel Wood
#7. I love Ellen [Page] like family. And even if we don't hang out all the time, she's still just somebody that always has a place in my heart.
Evan Rachel Wood
#8. People just usually think I'm someone else. They'll look at me twice, and I'll just say, 'Not Ellen Page.'
Shannon Woodward
#9. The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.
Ellen Page
#10. I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word "feminist" has a weird connotation.
Ellen Page
#11. Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,
Ellen Page
#12. I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.
Ellen Page
#13. As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?
Ellen Page
#14. I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
Ellen Page
#15. I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
Ellen Page
#16. I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.
Ellen Page
#17. I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.
Ellen Page
#18. I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.
Ellen Page
#19. I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.
Ellen Page
#20. I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
Ellen Page
#21. When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.
Ellen Page
#22. Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.
Ellen Page
#23. We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.
Ellen Page
#24. I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.
Ellen Page
#25. I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
Ellen Page
#26. I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
Ellen Page
#27. I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.
Ellen Page
#28. I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.
Ellen Page
#29. I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.
Ellen Page
#30. We're friends, and we're both friends with actresses our age, but we never get to work with each other because there's one girl in the movie, or whatever. For me, it was just so amazing to get to work with Evan [Rachel Wood], who I've loved forever.
Ellen Page
#31. I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
Ellen Page
#32. I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.
Ellen Page
#33. I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
Ellen Page
#34. By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country.
Ellen Page
#35. I guess I notice things as a woman just in the way I'm spoken to.
Ellen Page
#36. I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
Ellen Page
#37. I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.
Ellen Page
#38. I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.
Ellen Page
#39. We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.
Ellen Page
#40. I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.
Ellen Page
#41. It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.
Ellen Page
#42. I've always been a huge fan of Patricia's [Rozema ], as a director and as a writer, and she's a friend. For me, Patricia is one of those people who can cross genre in a way that I think has been pretty incredible, if you look at her career and the versatility of her work.
Ellen Page
#43. That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.
Ellen Page
#44. This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.
Ellen Page
#45. I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.
Ellen Page
#46. The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.
Ellen Page
#47. I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
Ellen Page
#48. I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.
Ellen Page
#49. I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I'll give you everything until I collapse. That's not in any 'Look at me, I'm a saint' kind of way. It's very selfish in a way. I'm doing this really awesome exploration, and it's like a drug, because I completely disappear.
Ellen Page
#50. But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.
Ellen Page
#51. If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
Ellen Page
#52. I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.
Ellen Page
#53. Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?
Ellen Page
#54. X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.
Ellen Page
#55. You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.
Ellen Page
#56. The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand,
Ellen Page
#57. I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world.
Ellen Page
#58. I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.
Ellen Page
#59. It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.
Ellen Page
#60. I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.
Ellen Page
#61. I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don't take myself seriously.
Ellen Page
#63. Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.
Ellen Page
#64. Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She was not forceful with anything, but enabled it to really have this poetic nature.
Ellen Page
#65. Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about.
Ellen Page
#66. Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.
Ellen Page
#67. Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
Ellen Hopkins
#68. When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.
Ellen Page
#69. And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.
Ellen Page
#70. I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#71. I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.
Ellen Page
#72. One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .
Ellen Page
#73. When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue ... and that's why I cry after sex.
Ellen Page
#74. Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.
Ellen Page
#75. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
Ellen Page
#76. I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
Ellen Page
#77. Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.
Ellen Page
#78. The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.
Ellen Page
#79. Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.
Ellen Page
#80. I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.
Ellen Page
#81. Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.
Ellen Lupton
#82. There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Ellen Page
#83. And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.
Ellen Page
#84. There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
Ellen Page
#85. I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
Ellen Page
#86. If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.
Ellen Page
#87. I'm never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.
Ellen Page
#88. I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
Ellen Page
#89. Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
Ellen Page
#90. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.
Ellen Page
#91. I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
Ellen Page
#92. I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.
Ellen Page
#93. Now, I try not to read gossip as a rule. But the other day, a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. And the writer asked, 'Why does this petite beauty insist on dressing like a massive man?' Because I like to be comfortable.
Ellen Page
#94. In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.
Ellen Page
#95. You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself
theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.
Ellen Page
#96. The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.
Ellen Page
#97. I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
Ellen Page
#98. Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.
Ellen Page
#99. Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.
Ellen Page
#100. I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
Ellen Page
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