Top 40 Anna Faris Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.”

— Anna Faris

2. “My favorite professor always used the quote “Don’t let anyone rent space in your head unless they’re a good tenant.”

— Anna Faris

3. “The eyes are the nipples of the face.”

— Anna Faris

4. “I’ve learned that there are some universal truths: If your closest friends stop showing up to your barbecues, you’re probably in a bad relationship. And if you opt for kindness over teasing, you’re probably in a good one.”

— Anna Faris

5. “I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn’t blonde.”

— Anna Faris

6. “I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.”

— Anna Faris

7. “I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.”

— Anna Faris

8. “I try not to read newspapers when I have a movie coming out, but I guess I’m not immune to public opinion. I’m hurt by it.”

— Anna Faris

9. “You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you’re stupid.”

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10. “I don’t know about you, but I love showing my ass to a crew of 300 that I’ve been working with.”

— Anna Faris

11. “You have to create your own stuff. It’s really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I’m not just a pawn waiting to be cast.”

— Anna Faris

12. “I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don’t know if I can. I don’t think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It’s been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.”

— Anna Faris

13. “It’s always exciting to be a part of the development and creative process, and I hope to continue to do it. I feel like, especially in the comedic world, it’s how things have to be done. You have to be a part of the motivating factor of getting the movie made. It’s so hard.”

— Anna Faris

14. “Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She’s a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.”

— Anna Faris

15. “I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!”

— Anna Faris

16. “Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.”

— Anna Faris

17. “Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.”

— Anna Faris

18. “I’m not a very good lover. I’m so nervous about my sexuality.”

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19. “Basically, the only profession you can or should date is a woodworker, or a guy who makes boats. Like Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle. Someone who is brooding but carves wood all day, making something gorgeous with his hands while he ruminates on lost love, and finding new love, and stormy seas.”

— Anna Faris

20. “I don’t really like to go out to clubs or anything. It’s just not my style. I’d much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.”

— Anna Faris

21. “The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.”

— Anna Faris

22. “One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don’t matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I’m really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.”

— Anna Faris

23. “I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it’s not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That’s when you really have to prove it to people.”

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24. “Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you’ve lived in this sort of strange, surreal world where it’s parties all the time and then you don’t get to live there anymore. What do you do with the rest of your life?”

— Anna Faris

25. “Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously.”

— Anna Faris

26. “Heartbreak and rejection are communal. Love is life’s greatest mystery and wildest adventure.”

— Anna Faris

27. “If you don’t believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.”

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28. “In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that’s been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.”

— Anna Faris

29. “My wedding will be a great party where I can get drunk and have a good time.”

— Anna Faris

30. “I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.”

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31. “My mom actually didn’t let me read any women’s magazines growing up. She also didn’t let me see Pretty Woman. She thought that I was going to want to be a hooker. So, instead, I just got cast in Scary Movie.”

— Anna Faris

32. “I never imagined being able to make money from acting – and now I can.”

— Anna Faris

33. “I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.”

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34. “I don’t know what I’m doing as a parent at all.”

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35. “I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.”

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36. “But I take comfort in the idea that once you accept that certain relationships will always haunt you, they actually make you a better person. Because now you’ve experienced the pain of loss and heartbreak and, at least in my case, humiliation.”

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37. “My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.”

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38. “You know, right now, they say – I don’t know who says this, but somebody told me – there’s three male roles to every female role. And I guess I’d work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It’s just such a huge challenge.”

— Anna Faris

39. “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want on the front page of the newspaper.”

— Anna Faris

40. “I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it’s kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it’s hugely important.”

— Anna Faris