Anne Hathaway Quotes

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role. That's what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.

Anne Hathaway

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• A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Fear

• We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Man
  • Ignorant
  • Opinionated

• Before I met him, I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic, and smelled bad. He’s protective without being possessive, passionate without needing to show his temper. I’m sorry, I know I sound insipid.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• I love the Dr.Hauschka range and use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser every day.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • I Love
  • Cleanser
  • Moisturiser

• You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Please

• Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Singing
  • Loved
  • Drawn

• I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it's amazing how beautiful every day can be.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • School
  • Done
  • Job

• It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • God
  • Women
  • Friend

• Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Actor
  • Dreamed
  • Movie Star

• I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Work
  • Street
  • Cop

• Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so I can make more of an impact when I do use it. A cause like One Billion Rising is something I want to scream about, and I want you to take that scream seriously because I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Scream
  • Photographers
  • Nightclubs

• Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Good Life
  • Mellow
  • Good Story

• Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Weight
  • Waste Of Time
  • Obsessing

• There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Expectations
  • Shape
  • Magic Bullet

• My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Career

• I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Relationship
  • Goodness
  • Believes

• I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Family
  • Values
  • Raised

• Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Inspiring
  • Batman
  • I Want

• I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Time
  • Family
  • I Love

• I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job but if it means hurting someone, I won't do it.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Job
  • Hurting
  • Philosophy Of Life

• There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Care
  • Changing
  • Fashion Industry