Amanda Seyfried Quotes

I talk like I know what I'm saying, but I don't.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

My sister keeps me grounded.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people ... I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't want someone to swap out my stomach with a supermodel. I don't want dirty old men looking at me in my underwear.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Taylor Swift is pretty hip ... She seems pretty honest. I think that's hip. She's promoting knowing yourself, and that's the best idol.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

I'm too measured and controlling - about everything. That's why I take Lexapro. It's for OCD. I don't feel like I'm struggling with it. I think OCD is a part of me that protects me. It's also the part of me that I use in my job, in a positive way.

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

I don't dye my hair and I can go without makeup.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

I just don't like my face.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

I happen to be really a romantic.

It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me ... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you're fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn't like you that much.

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

I'm not a beautiful prom-girl type.

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

Life experience is priceless.

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

I am most scared of being bored

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

If you're from Africa, why are you white?

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

Perfect is boring.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

I'm trouble, but in a good way.

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you.

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.