Ellen Page famous quotes

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.
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#Effort #Would Be #World

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.
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#Reality #Thinking #Humans

You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.
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#Gay #Thinking #Knowing

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.
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#Life #Pain #Giving

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.
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#Life #People #Accepting

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?
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#Powerful #People #Feminist

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.
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#Differences #Effort #Would Be

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.
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#Inspirational #Motivational #Pain

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.
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#Growing Up #Space #People

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?
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#Girl #Mean #Sleep

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.
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#People #Feminist #Causes

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.
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#Destiny #Men #Thinking

If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know.
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#Differences #People #Support

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
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#Beautiful #Believe #Eye

You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.
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#Creating #People #Heterosexuality

I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?
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#Mean #Law #White

I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. 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. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.
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#Hate #Dirty #Destiny

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.
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#Girl #Meaningful #Powerful

Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,
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#Love Is #Giving #Incredibles

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.
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#Sports #Film #Grew

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.
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#Heart #Ideas #Trying

It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.
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#Crush #Good Life #Hate

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.
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#Hero #Thinking #Evil

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.
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#Daughter #Mother #Thinking

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.
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#Kids #Ice #Quads

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.
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#Jobs #Actors #Sometimes

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.
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#Witty #Character #Mind

I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff.
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#Book #Thinking #Space

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
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#Thinking #Trying #Hollywood

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.
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#Girl #Loss #Men

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,
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#Girlfriend #Hands #Want

I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
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#People #Common Sense #Priorities

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.
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#Responsibility #Social #Obligation

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.
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#Creating #Space #Acting

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
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#Canada #Grew Up #Lows

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.
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#Roles #Levels #Kind

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.
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#Fans #Saws

I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
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#Democracy #Fans #Amy

I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan.
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#Fans #Sissy

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.
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#Airports #People #Imagine

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.
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#Reading #Thinking #Scripts

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.
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#Nova Scotia #Novas

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
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#Believe #Independent #Writing

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.
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#Kids #Desire #Littles

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.
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#Ideas #People #Stuff

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.
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#Stuff #Care #Kind

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.
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#Fighting #Thinking #People

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.
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#Geek #Lost #Planets

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.
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#Sports #Adults #Grew

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.
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#Support #Twenties #Actors

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.
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#Men #Way #X Men

You should have gone to China. You know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those T-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
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#Baby #Gun #Ipods

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.
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#Honest #Young #Young Women

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.
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#Canada #States #Bigs

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.
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#Acting #Able #Losing Yourself

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.
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#Sex #Wall #Smart

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.
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#Grateful #Want #Able

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
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#Common Sense #Common #Wells

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
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#World #Nicknames #This World

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.
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#Stupid #People #Judging

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.
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#Selfish #Giving #Drug

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.
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#Character #Thinking #People

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?
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#Fun #Animal #World

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.
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#Thinking #People #Hypocrisy

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.
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#Smart #Coffee #Thinking

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
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#Tragedy #Comedy #Paradox

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.
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#Holiday #Thinking #Mind

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
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#Teenager #Wish

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
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#Lifestyle #Permaculture

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.
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#Mean #Winter #Islands

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.
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#Kids #Jeans #Play

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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#Hate #Men #Office

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.
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#Quiet #Feels