Top 100 Anne Hathaway Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I really don’t drink, I don’t do drugs. I feel like right now I’ve been given so many opportunities I don’t want to mess it up with those things...”

— Anne Hathaway

53. “A lot of people have told me, ‘You’re not this and so can’t play that,’ and I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve been told I’m not sexy. I don’t wear my sexiness overtly doesn’t mean that I can’t become that girl for a role. That’s what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.”

— Anne Hathaway

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “I’d love to be an artist that’s multifaceted.”

— Anne Hathaway

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “There’s nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.”

— Anne Hathaway

62. “I’m convinced that a few guys I’ve dated are gay, and they won’t admit it. I think we’ve all done that.”

— Anne Hathaway

63. “The best part about working is that you never know what you’re going to learn when you start out.”

— Anne Hathaway

64. “I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.”

— Anne Hathaway

65. “I’d always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman’s world, is actually light to moderate.”

— Anne Hathaway

66. “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

67. “Your face needs to have character if you’re an actor – otherwise you’re just a face.”

— Anne Hathaway

68. “I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.”

— Anne Hathaway

69. “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

70. “I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!”

— Anne Hathaway

71. “There’s something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don’t really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.”

— Anne Hathaway

72. “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

73. “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

74. “I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.”

— Anne Hathaway

75. “Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself.”

— Anne Hathaway

76. “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

77. “Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.”

— Anne Hathaway

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I’m not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I’ve played put me in that position. I don’t feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.”

— Anne Hathaway

83. “That’s how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost .”

— Anne Hathaway

84. “I’ve been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone’s age, I’m very fortunate.”

— Anne Hathaway

85. “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

86. “I don’t feel comfortable doing movies. It’s not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.”

— Anne Hathaway

87. “The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.”

— Anne Hathaway

88. “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

89. “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

90. “I love employment, and it’s never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.”

— Anne Hathaway

91. “Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it’s kind of hard to have a favorite and I’m not just being political, it’s hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves.”

— Anne Hathaway

92. “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

93. “I’m always curious about how actors cry on film.”

— Anne Hathaway

94. “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

95. “I love the short-haired lifestyle.”

— Anne Hathaway

96. “Im much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.”

— Anne Hathaway

97. “I know it’s not the right thing to say, but I’m really happy with my body.”

— Anne Hathaway

98. “I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn’t lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.”

— Anne Hathaway

99. “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

100. “When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, “I trust that, I’m wrong.””

— Anne Hathaway