Scarlett Johansson Quotes

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed. ~ Scarlett Johansson

If you have breakouts, it can be really healing, it's a little bit stinky, but if you're not sleeping over at your boyfriend's, it's really effective ~ Scarlett Johansson

My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I once heard that women dress for women
not for men
and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life. ~ Scarlett Johansson

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Ew. Can you not talk about my dad ogling people? Scarlett Johansson may be gorgeous, but still."
"It'll be a challenge, but I think I can refrain from licking the screen," Brendan deadpanned, placing the wine bottle on the coffee table next to the bowl of popcorn before settling into the chair where he'd been working on his computer earlier.
"Ew! Dad! ~ Amelia C. Gormley

It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me. ~ Scarlett Johansson

If you ask [my daughter] what I do for a living, she says, 'Mommy's a superhero'. And then one day, not that long ago, I think we were taking a break shooting Infinity War, and I was going into the office - I wasn't doing anything film-related - and I was like, 'Okay, see you later, honey. Mommy has to go to work.' And she was like, 'Who are you fighting? ~ Scarlett Johansson

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable ... When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want. ~ Scarlett Johansson

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks. ~ Scarlett Johansson

There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song. ~ Scarlett Johansson

...in order to trust my instincts I must first respect them. ~ Scarlett Johansson

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with. ~ Scarlett Johansson

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder? ~ Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.' ~ Steve Erickson

Improvisation has never been my strong point. ~ Scarlett Johansson

But her expression remained stormy, like her mother's whenever she heard someone praise Scarlett Johansson's good looks. (Tip: never mention Scarlett Johansson around Aprodite.) ~ Rick Riordan

I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines-never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news-trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares? ~ Scarlett Johansson

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place. ~ Scarlett Johansson

A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't know video games.The last video game I played, apart from Dance Dance Revolution at Jeremy's house, which I was very good at - Scarlett [Johansson] and I will always have "Billie Jean" - was Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. I'm from the Dark Ages. ~ Joss Whedon

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. ~ Lindsay Lohan

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta . ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing for me is the actual work. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them. ~ Neil Marshall

I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something. ~ Scarlett Johansson

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time. ~ Scarlett Johansson

When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last. ~ Scarlett Johansson

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong. ~ Scarlett Johansson

It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know? ~ Scarlett Johansson

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' ~ Scarlett Johansson

You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I think that I sort of see other actresses are kind of proud of the way they look and show it off. That's never really been my style. I really don't think that it's disgusting or wrong, if you're 18 you're 18, it's your body, it's your right to show yourself, however, I don't really take a part in that. I like to look nice, but I think that there's ways of doing it that are more tasteful than just wearing a bikini wherever you go. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual ... those people have always been close to my heart. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry. ~ Vanessa Hudgens

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I think everyone has a girl crush on Rihanna. Who else? Charlize Theron, she's hot. Scarlett Johansson, I just love all those bombshells! ~ Selita Ebanks

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.' ~ Megan Fox

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. ~ Scarlett Johansson

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You are the true meaning of beauty Scarlett Johansson , your beauty inspired me to create the best soundtracks ever . love and noble respect to your magical Soul ~ Sami Abouzid

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow - which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex. ~ Scarlett Johansson

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor. ~ Demian Bichir

Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we're emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so strongly already. Well, it's because there has been an unfortunate tendency down here to deflect as much attention as possible away from the atrocities that the South was responsible for before, during, and after the war, and to focus on the glory, the courage, and all that kind of shit instead. We name roads, schools, and parks after Confederate leaders. We erect statues in their honor. We revere them and honor them, all while ignoring the gigantic racist elephant in the room. 4 Look, it ain't nothin' wrong with glory and courage, and it's completely legitimate to acknowledge the military greatness of some of the Confederacy's leaders, but what's not okay is to do so without also acknowledging their complicity in and tacit acceptance of one of the single most reprehensible and inhumane practices in human history. 5 It's disingenuous. It's cheap. It's cowardly. We gotta cut that shit out.

So, yes, we fought a war for slavery, and because sometimes the universe gets some shit right (waterfalls, potatoes, Scarlett Johansson), we lost. Which is another thing we apparently need to remind some of our fellow Southerners of. Not only did we fight a war for slavery, but we got our asses whupped. Until we can all agree to accept this and act accordingly, we're never going to be able to move on. It's nothing to be proud of, y'all - it reall ~ Trae Crowder

If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim. ~ Scarlett Johansson

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me. ~ Scarlett Johansson

There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt. ~ Halston Sage

I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way. ~ Scarlett Johansson

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do." ~ Scarlett Johansson

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are. ~ Scarlett Johansson

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes. ~ Clark Gregg

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes. ~ Scarlett Johansson

I love everything about you, everything about you makes me happy even when you get mad at me, I smile cause simply you are the true love of my life and it's an eternal love ~ Sami Abouzid

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that. ~ Scarlett Johansson