Elliot Page Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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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.
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I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.
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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.
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Sometimes it’s the little, insignificant stuff that can tear you down. 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. The writer asked, 'Why does this petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?' *pause* Because I like to be comfortable.
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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.
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When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
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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.
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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.
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I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.
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I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
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I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.
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I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
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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.
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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?
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I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
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Producing is a way of finding a great script that nobody's making, and believing in it, and doing what you can to get it made. It lets you work with your friends, people you really love to do something with.
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There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
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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.
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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.
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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.