Amanda Seyfried Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift is pretty hip ... She seems pretty honest. I think that's hip. She's promoting knowing yourself, and that's the best idol. — Amanda Seyfried

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it. — Amanda Seyfried

There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful. — Amanda Seyfried

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control. — Amanda Seyfried

My sister keeps me grounded. — Amanda Seyfried

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm trouble, but in a good way. — Amanda Seyfried

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances. — Amanda Seyfried

Anxiety, it just stops your life. — Amanda Seyfried

I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end. — Amanda Seyfried

It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic. — Amanda Seyfried

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week. — Amanda Seyfried

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar. — Amanda Seyfried

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead. — Amanda Seyfried

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building. — Amanda Seyfried

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner. — Amanda Seyfried

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment. — Amanda Seyfried

I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about? — Amanda Seyfried

I love my apartment in New York. — Amanda Seyfried

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier. — Amanda Seyfried

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art. — Amanda Seyfried

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake? — Amanda Seyfried

I am most scared of being bored — Amanda Seyfried

I'm too measured and controlling - about everything. That's why I take Lexapro. It's for OCD. I don't feel like I'm struggling with it. I think OCD is a part of me that protects me. It's also the part of me that I use in my job, in a positive way. — Amanda Seyfried

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. — Amanda Seyfried

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working. — Amanda Seyfried

Maybe people in Hollywood wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone. — Amanda Seyfried

I just don't like my face. — Amanda Seyfried

People are made up of flaws. — Amanda Seyfried

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40. — Amanda Seyfried

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing. — Amanda Seyfried

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that. — Amanda Seyfried

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him. — Amanda Seyfried

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out. — Amanda Seyfried

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.' — Amanda Seyfried

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally. — Amanda Seyfried

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. — Amanda Seyfried

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. — Amanda Seyfried

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world. — Amanda Seyfried

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken. — Amanda Seyfried

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working. — Amanda Seyfried

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot. — Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases. — Amanda Seyfried

I don't dye my hair and I can go without makeup. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself. — Amanda Seyfried

I think I'm past the age of getting lost. — Amanda Seyfried

I talk like I know what I'm saying, but I don't. — Amanda Seyfried

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity. — Amanda Seyfried

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters. — Amanda Seyfried

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm not a beautiful prom-girl type. — Amanda Seyfried

My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you're fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn't like you that much. — Amanda Seyfried

I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong. — Amanda Seyfried

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring. — Amanda Seyfried

Actors are separated all the time. — Amanda Seyfried

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. — Amanda Seyfried

I happen to be really a romantic. — Amanda Seyfried

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere. — Amanda Seyfried

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do. — Amanda Seyfried

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people. — Amanda Seyfried

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people ... I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't want someone to swap out my stomach with a supermodel. I don't want dirty old men looking at me in my underwear. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache. — Amanda Seyfried

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush. — Amanda Seyfried

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit. — Amanda Seyfried

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience. — Amanda Seyfried

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up. — Amanda Seyfried

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds. — Amanda Seyfried

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. — Amanda Seyfried

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it. — Amanda Seyfried

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain. — Amanda Seyfried

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing. — Amanda Seyfried

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone. — Amanda Seyfried

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters. — Amanda Seyfried

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you. — Amanda Seyfried

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. — Amanda Seyfried

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome. — Amanda Seyfried

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model. — Amanda Seyfried

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place. — Amanda Seyfried

Life experience is priceless. — Amanda Seyfried

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that. — Amanda Seyfried

Perfect is boring. — Amanda Seyfried

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last? — Amanda Seyfried

You've just got to be comfortable with yourself. — Amanda Seyfried

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody. — Amanda Seyfried

If you're from Africa, why are you white? — Amanda Seyfried

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona. — Amanda Seyfried

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre. — Amanda Seyfried

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me. — Amanda Seyfried

I always wanted to make people feel something. — Amanda Seyfried

I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous. — Amanda Seyfried

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows. — Amanda Seyfried

I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it. — Amanda Seyfried

I just can't wait for the future. — Amanda Seyfried

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable. — Amanda Seyfried

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. — Amanda Seyfried

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much. — Amanda Seyfried