Amy Adams Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.

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.

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

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.

I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.

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

Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.