Anne Hathaway quotes

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Choices #Live Your Life #Please

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Thinking #Relief #Roles

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

#Women #Feminist #Ignorant

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Way #Film #Minutes

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Gay #Love Is #Political

I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Jumping #Special #World

There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement
-- Anne Hathaway

#Gay #Love Is #People

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Self #Lovely #Doubt

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

#Hate #Mean #College

Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Attitude #Feminist #Teeth

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy
-- Anne Hathaway

#Mirrors #Make Me Happy #Feels

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Girl #Women #Believe

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

#Beautiful #Compassion #Matter

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

#Want #Saws #Most Inspiring

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

#Good Life #Stories #Mellow

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

#Believe #People #Goodness

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Wedding #Important #Celebrate Life

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Love Is #Thinking

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Home #Thinking #Ideas

Im much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Flirting #Talking #People

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Loneliness #Care #Favorites Things

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?
-- Anne Hathaway

#Girl #Teacher #Ducks

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've  grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Quality #Ongoing #Shame

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Technology #Singing #Notes

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

#Stars #Actors #Want

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time
-- Anne Hathaway

#Weight #Waste #Wasting Time

Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Creativity #Wonderful #These Days

College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Unique #College #Thinking

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

#Letting Go #Stress #Expectations

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Breakup #Bad Relationship #Good Relationship

I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Girl #Stars #Comfort

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Fashion #Fun #Thinking

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
-- Anne Hathaway

#Kindness #Important #Quality

My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Beautiful #New York #Growing Up

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Attitude #War #People

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Growing Up #Princess #Diaries

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
-- Anne Hathaway

#People #Patterns #Desperate

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Acceptance

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Art #Character #Mean

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.
-- Anne Hathaway

#World #Pops #Aspiration

I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.
-- Anne Hathaway

#People #Feelings #Fabric

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Taken #Gossip #Might

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Being Yourself #Struggle #Thinking

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Princess #Diaries #Film

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Thinking #Trying #Actors

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Believe #Character #People

If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Letting Go #Happy Life #People

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Family #Children #Want

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?
-- Anne Hathaway

#Song #Hard Work #Artist

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.
-- Anne Hathaway

#House #Done #Emergencies

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Reading #Laughing #Looks

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Done #Accomplish

When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Thinking #Focus #Fans

I love the short-haired lifestyle.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Lifestyle

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Jobs #Acting #Lucky

Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself
-- Anne Hathaway

#Clothes #Long #Scent

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

#Jobs #Princess #School

I had a dream. And it came true.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Dream #I Had A Dream

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

#Hurt #Jobs #Philosophy

I love the Dr.Hauschka range and use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser every day,
-- Anne Hathaway

#Drs #Use #Range

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Fighting #Rights #Long

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Being Positive #Negative #Remember

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Character #Needs #Actors

I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Couple #Vintage #Forgiving

I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to  be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Mouths #Want #Sake

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Careers #Looks #Unattractive

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Truth #Reality #Two