Amy Adams Quotes

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

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.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

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

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

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

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

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

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.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

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

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.

You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

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

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.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

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

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

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.

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.

One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you.

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!

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

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.