Jordana Quotes & Sayings

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops. — Jordana Brewster

I work out with a trainer five days a week. — Jordana Brewster

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered. — Jordana Brewster

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income. — Jordana Spiro

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre. — Jordana Brewster

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey. — Jordana Brewster

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as. — Jordana Brewster

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters ... and that's why the characters need to be real. — Jordana Brewster

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end. — Jordana Brewster

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world. — Jordana Brewster

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie. — Jordana Brewster

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl. — Jordana Brewster

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire. — Jordana Brewster

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista. — Jordana Spiro

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself. — Jordana Brewster

I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps. — Jordana Brewster

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out. — Jordana Brewster

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school. — Jordana Brewster

For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy. — Jordana Spiro

I'm passionate about travel. — Jordana Spiro

Saving Aven was like saving a part of you. The part that you loved the most. The part I wanted to get to know. — Jordana Frankel

The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her.
"I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear."
She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again. — Joe Dunthorne

I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family. — Jordana Brewster

I think escapism is really important. — Jordana Brewster

I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out. — Jordana Spiro

Jordana is in the umpire's highchair.
I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box.
Her legs are crossed.
I wait for her to speak.
'I have two special skills,' she says.
She pulls a sheaf of papers from under her bum. I recognize the font and the text boxes. It's my pamphlet.
'Blackmail,' she says.
She holds up her Zippo in the other hand. I can tell that she has been practising this.
'And pyromania.'
I am impressed that Jordana knows this word.
'Right,' I say.
'I'm going to blackmail you, Ol.'
I feel powerless. She is in a throne.
'Okay,' I say. — Joe Dunthorne

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years. — Jordana Spiro

I like having a routine, because everything else ... is so unpredictable. — Jordana Brewster

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore. — Jordana Spiro

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus. — Jordana Brewster

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked! — Jordana Spiro

I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job. — Jordana Brewster

Ever since Jordana dumpled me, I've started feeling like a middle-aged person. I think it is to do with trauma. I just walk around doing and impression of a sixteen-year-old. — Joe Dunthorne

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen. — Jordana Spiro

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing. — Jordana Brewster

I will always love everything you are, and even the demons that haunt your mind, I will love them as only a queen to her king can, they are the darkest parts of you that no one else has ever seen, but you have shown me, — Jordana Mia Lezamy

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects. — Jordana Brewster

Paul [Walker]'s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy. — Jordana Brewster

I feel like directing is an innate talent. — Jordana Brewster

When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple. — Jordana Brewster

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it. — Jordana Brewster

When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed. — Jordana Brewster

Parking is a nightmare for me ... I still have sensors on my car that help me park. — Jordana Brewster

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work. — Jordana Brewster

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous. — Jordana Brewster

I'm saying my rosary every day. — Jordana Brewster

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy. — Jordana Spiro

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. — Jordana Brewster

I like action more than anything touchy-feely. — Jordana Brewster

Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother. — Joe Dunthorne

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed. — Jordana Brewster

I will not go on a blind date. — Jordana Brewster

Don't think I'm offering this out of duty or anything half as noble. You know I'm a selfish bastard who demands things go his way. I don't settle for anything less than what I want. And what I want right now, forever, is you." His eyes glowed bright with tender emotion. He held her face in his hands, searching her gaze with an intensity that made her blood heat beneath her skin. "I'm offering my bond because I love you. Because I need you, Jordana, and I don't want to know what life without you will feel like ever again. — Lara Adrian

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a ... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great. — Jordana Brewster

Name your price and it's yours. She need never know." Nathan's answering curse was ripe outrage. Dark with fury. "There isn't enough goddamn money in the world. If you really love Jordana as much as I do, you'd know that. — Lara Adrian

I want the evening upon which we lose our collective virginities to be special. I'm no parthenologist but I suspect that Jordana's virginity is still intact. Her biological knowledge is minimal. She thinks that a perineum is to do with glacial moraine. — Joe Dunthorne