Amy Adams famous quotes

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
-- Amy Adams

#Girl #Hard Work #Shoes

I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.
-- Amy Adams

#Athletics

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!
-- Amy Adams

#Hair #Personality #Blonde

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.
-- Amy Adams

#People #World #Intimidating

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
-- Amy Adams

#School #Numbers #Musical

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
-- Amy Adams

#Jobs #Mean #Actresses

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.
-- Amy Adams

#Thinking #Musical #Just Being

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.
-- Amy Adams

#Beauty #Baby #Swimsuits

I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
-- Amy Adams

#Player #Iphone #Dvds

I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
-- Amy Adams

#Mean #Lines #Bears

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
-- Amy Adams

#Apology #Abhorrent #Behaviour

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
-- Amy Adams

#Grateful #Cameras #Paparazzi

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.
-- Amy Adams

#Gymnastics

It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
-- Amy Adams

#Fire #Comforting #Cozy

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
-- Amy Adams

#Hands #People #Nerd

What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
-- Amy Adams

#People #Work Ethic #Tails

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
-- Amy Adams

#Age #Together #Actors

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
-- Amy Adams

#Letting Go #Hogwash #Superstitions

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
-- Amy Adams

#Beautiful #Ballet #Would Be

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
-- Amy Adams

#Revenge #People #Quality

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
-- Amy Adams

#Character #Driven

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
-- Amy Adams

#Funny #Attitude #Stupid

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
-- Amy Adams

#People #Unattractive #Actresses

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
-- Amy Adams

#Insecure #Long #Actresses

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
-- Amy Adams

#People #Hollies #Acting

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
-- Amy Adams

#High Heels #Shoes #Body

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
-- Amy Adams

#Challenges #Different #Lucky

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
-- Amy Adams

#Jobs #School #College

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
-- Amy Adams

#Character #Voice #Wish

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
-- Amy Adams

#Acting #Broadway #Film

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
-- Amy Adams

#Holiday #Simple #Simple Things

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.
-- Amy Adams

#Joy #Want

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
-- Amy Adams

#Falling In Love #Crazy #Love Is

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
-- Amy Adams

#Moving #Thinking #Leap Of Faith

I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.
-- Amy Adams

#Beautiful #Heart #Character

I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference when I went red. I just felt ‘wow, I’m home’. It’s great. You do something stupid when you’re blonde and you’re dumb. Do something stupid when you’re red and you’re a character.
-- Amy Adams

#Stupid #Believe #Home

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.
-- Amy Adams

#Criticism #Skins #Faces

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
-- Amy Adams

#Real #Awards #Views

Anyone who falls in love is a freak.  Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
-- Amy Adams

#Falling In Love #Love Is #Insanity

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?
-- Amy Adams

#Meaningful #Excited

You're nothing to me until you're everything
-- Amy Adams

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
-- Amy Adams

#Kids #Ego #Seven

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.
-- Amy Adams

#Fashion #Shoes #Work Ethic

I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.
-- Amy Adams

#Mean #Hard Times #Emotional

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
-- Amy Adams

#School #Dinner #Saws

I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.
-- Amy Adams

#Girl #Jobs #Thinking

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
-- Amy Adams

#People #Spontaneity #Surrender

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
-- Amy Adams

#Children #School #Kids

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.
-- Amy Adams

#School #Hair #Self

It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.
-- Amy Adams

#Order #Challenges #Shooting

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.
-- Amy Adams

#Makeup #Perfect #Interesting

Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.
-- Amy Adams

#Mean #People #Looks

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.
-- Amy Adams

#Men #Thinking #Age

I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
-- Amy Adams

#Religious #Lying #Impact