Ellen Page Quotes & Sayings

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts. — Ellen Page

By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country. — Ellen Page

I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers? — Ellen Page

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous. — Ellen Page

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift. — Ellen Page

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I loved Anthony Bourdain, but I really did want to see one about LGBTQ communities and culture and the specific country that we visit. Of course it is about the joys and the triumphs and the nightlife, but sadly, unfortunately, it's also about the discrimination that people face, because that's the reality. — Ellen Page

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job [acting] doesn't always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it's useful. — Ellen Page

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first. — Ellen Page

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin? — Ellen Page

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts. — Ellen Page

No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film. — Ellen Page

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle. — Ellen Page

Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about. — Ellen Page

Now, I try not to read gossip as a rule. But the other day, a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. And the writer asked, 'Why does this petite beauty insist on dressing like a massive man?' Because I like to be comfortable. — Ellen Page

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare. — Ellen Page

If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know. — Ellen Page

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain. — Ellen Page

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. — Ellen Page

Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it. — Ellen Page

We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again. — Ellen Page

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. — Ellen Page

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. — Ellen Page

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates. — Ellen Page

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty. — Ellen Page

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film. — Ellen Page

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard. — Ellen Page

It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies. — Ellen Page

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included. — Ellen Page

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. — Ellen Page

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational. — Ellen Page

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way. — Ellen Page

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. — Ellen Page

I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word "feminist" has a weird connotation. — Ellen Page

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures. — Ellen Page

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act. — Ellen Page

You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself. — Ellen Page

I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don't take myself seriously. — Ellen Page

I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to make the show, and that it is in alignment with what I'm interested in, with what I read about. For me, it just felt like an organic step - of course, I'm thinking I want a show that allows for more representation for the community and shows the struggles people face, especially when we're hearing all this political rhetoric - to have a way to show how much this affects people lives. — Ellen Page

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small. — Ellen Page

I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and it's because it's what I'm interested in. I'm not going to read a script and say, 'They're not gay, I'm not going to do it,' but I am interested in playing more gay people, because I've only played one gay person, and I've done a fair amount of movies, and I am interested in those stories. So for me, there's no should-I-or-shouldn't-I. It all feels natural. — Ellen Page

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message. — Ellen Page

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up. — Ellen Page

I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world. — Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world. — Ellen Page

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women. — Ellen Page

Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill. — Ellen Page

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. — Ellen Page

I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan. — Ellen Page

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. — Ellen Page

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies. — Ellen Page

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss. — Ellen Page

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit? — Ellen Page

If you are a LGBTQ person, if you're going to travel somewhere, you do need to be mindful of where you're going, particularly depending on the country. That's just something unfortunately you need to think about. It's something you need to think about if you're a woman, it's something to think about particularly if you're a trans woman, and the problems a lot of trans people face when they're travelling. — Ellen Page

I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it [Into the Forest] all started. — Ellen Page

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself
theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything. — Ellen Page

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia. — Ellen Page

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word? — Ellen Page

Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being, — Ellen Page

When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue ... and that's why I cry after sex. — Ellen Page

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on. — Ellen Page

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails. — Ellen Page

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel. — Ellen Page

I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast. — Ellen Page

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen. — Ellen Page

We're trying, despite having done research and having obviously preconceived ideas, we try our best to be as open-hearted as possible, and try to create context. So that's always going to be the challenge, making a program like 'Gaycation', and we are always thinking about it, reflecting on it, and doing our best to show the whole picture as much as possible in a 45-minute span. Hopefully that comes across. — Ellen Page

I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I'll give you everything until I collapse. That's not in any 'Look at me, I'm a saint' kind of way. It's very selfish in a way. I'm doing this really awesome exploration, and it's like a drug, because I completely disappear. — Ellen Page

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself. — Ellen Page

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it. — Ellen Page

The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand, — Ellen Page

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else. — Ellen Page

I'm never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be. — Ellen Page

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. — Ellen Page

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties. — Ellen Page

There are moments when you are, um, encouraged to dress a certain way. But I can't. It just erodes my soul. That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it - that's awesome. People always attribute being a feminist to hating girls being sexual, and that's not it at all. I'm just not into it. — Ellen Page

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. — Ellen Page

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it. — Ellen Page

I didn't even think about it when I read the script and then shooting their movie and someone was like "boy, press is going to be fun". And I didn't really know what they were talking about because to me it's just a film shows it as an extremely viable option which is obviously the most important thing for young individuals. — Ellen Page

I think that is funny to say because I've always loved her work and her strength and vulnerability, and the intensity of Evan's [Rachel Wood] performances. And to know her as a friend, know her as someone who we just have fun, whatever, and then see how present she is when she's working and how powerful she is. It was really awesome to get to sort of go into this different dimension with each other. — Ellen Page

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture. — Ellen Page

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility. — Ellen Page

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality. — Ellen Page

In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal. — Ellen Page

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way. — Ellen Page

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it. — Ellen Page

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn. — Ellen Page

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning. — Ellen Page

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost. — Ellen Page

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y. — Ellen Page

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware. — Ellen Page

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet. — Ellen Page

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. — Ellen Page

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense. — Ellen Page

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea. — Ellen Page

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story. — Ellen Page

I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger. — Ellen Page

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality. — Ellen Page

The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do. — Ellen Page

I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff. — Ellen Page