Top 100 Anne Hathaway Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”

— Anne Hathaway

2. “Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.”

— Anne Hathaway

3. “But you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.”

— Anne Hathaway

4. “I had a dream. And it came true.”

— Anne Hathaway

5. “Love is a human experience, not a political statement.”

— Anne Hathaway

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “I think the only thing in life that you really have to worry about is how you treat other people. If you mess up and treat someone else badly, you apologize, and you don’t apologize for anything else. Be yourself and go for it.”

— Anne Hathaway

11. “You’re only human. You don’t have to have it together every minute of the day.”

— Anne Hathaway

12. “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

13. “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

14. “Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”

— Anne Hathaway

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15. “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

16. “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

17. “I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.”

— Anne Hathaway

18. “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

19. “I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.”

— Anne Hathaway

20. “I see myself as improving. I think I’m a very curious person, and I like that about myself .”

— Anne Hathaway

21. “Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.”

— Anne Hathaway

22. “In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.”

— Anne Hathaway

23. “Mia: I can’t do this, I’m a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?”

— Anne Hathaway

24. “I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.”

— Anne Hathaway

25. “I’ve honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.”

— Anne Hathaway

26. “Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.”

— Anne Hathaway

27. “My acting wasn’t the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.”

— Anne Hathaway

28. “I’m a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It’s all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy.”

— Anne Hathaway

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29. “A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.”

— Anne Hathaway

30. “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

31. “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

32. “I am a girl without game. I’m not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.”

— Anne Hathaway

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

38. “Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.”

— Anne Hathaway

39. “My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I’m having a bad day, I’m like: “Oh, you know what? I’m going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!””

— Anne Hathaway

40. “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

41. “I loved Catwoman’s sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don’t know which side she’s going to come down on. She’s totally independent. And let’s face it, she’s badass.”

— Anne Hathaway

42. “Here’s how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place...”

— Anne Hathaway

43. “Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie’s not saying that you don’t have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you’re going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you’re doing.”

— Anne Hathaway

44. “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

45. “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

46. “I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don’t think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your ‘significant other’ if you have one.”

— Anne Hathaway

47. “Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.”

— Anne Hathaway

48. “My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.”

— Anne Hathaway

49. “I think nudity is related to everything.”

— Anne Hathaway

50. “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