Anne Hathaway Quotes - Page 5

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.

Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don't know which side she's going to come down on. She's totally independent. And let's face it, she's badass.

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

I love the Dr.Hauschka range and use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser every day.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place.