Scarlett Johansson Quotes & Sayings

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks. — Scarlett Johansson

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't. — Scarlett Johansson

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody. — Scarlett Johansson

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time. — Scarlett Johansson

I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship. — Scarlett Johansson

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me. — Scarlett Johansson

I'd rather be really good at something or not do it at all. — Scarlett Johansson

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do. — Scarlett Johansson

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous. — Scarlett Johansson

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable ... When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want. — Scarlett Johansson

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working. — Scarlett Johansson

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. — Scarlett Johansson

I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer. — Scarlett Johansson

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out. — Scarlett Johansson

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with. — Scarlett Johansson

I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work ... — Scarlett Johansson

For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it. — Scarlett Johansson

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing for me is the actual work. — Scarlett Johansson

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it. — Scarlett Johansson

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. — Scarlett Johansson

A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man. — Scarlett Johansson

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are. — Scarlett Johansson

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong. — Scarlett Johansson

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me ... no way! — Scarlett Johansson

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it. — Scarlett Johansson

If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it. — Scarlett Johansson

If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people ... I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized. — Scarlett Johansson

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it. — Scarlett Johansson

You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing. — Scarlett Johansson

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon. — Scarlett Johansson

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life. — Scarlett Johansson

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix. — Scarlett Johansson

I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships ... — Scarlett Johansson

I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something. — Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things. — Scarlett Johansson

My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that. — Scarlett Johansson

My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas. — Scarlett Johansson

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you. — Scarlett Johansson

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta . — Scarlett Johansson

I once heard that women dress for women
not for men
and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you. — Scarlett Johansson

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part. — Scarlett Johansson

As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about. — Scarlett Johansson

It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose. — Scarlett Johansson

We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions. — Scarlett Johansson

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last. — Scarlett Johansson

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me. — Scarlett Johansson

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show. — Scarlett Johansson

There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song. — Scarlett Johansson

I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through. — Scarlett Johansson

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company. — Scarlett Johansson

I get tested for HIV twice a year ... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible. — Scarlett Johansson

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts. — Scarlett Johansson

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way. — Scarlett Johansson

Improvisation has never been my strong point. — Scarlett Johansson

People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message. — Scarlett Johansson

Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady. — Scarlett Johansson

You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out. — Scarlett Johansson

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow - which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex. — Scarlett Johansson

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder? — Scarlett Johansson

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful. — Scarlett Johansson

My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids. — Scarlett Johansson

I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. — Scarlett Johansson

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm all about fashion, cheeseburgers and bright-red lipstick. — Scarlett Johansson

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then. — Scarlett Johansson

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. — Scarlett Johansson

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory. — Scarlett Johansson

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true. — Scarlett Johansson

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again. — Scarlett Johansson

When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them. — Scarlett Johansson

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3 frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot. — Scarlett Johansson

I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it. — Scarlett Johansson

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation. — Scarlett Johansson

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine. — Scarlett Johansson

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements. — Scarlett Johansson

I'm very independent.
I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care. — Scarlett Johansson

There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam. — Scarlett Johansson

You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer. — Scarlett Johansson

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' — Scarlett Johansson

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that. — Scarlett Johansson

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. — Scarlett Johansson