Top 100 Anne Hathaway Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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. “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

54. “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

55. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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 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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

70. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

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

— Anne Hathaway

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

84. “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

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. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

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. “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

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

— Anne Hathaway

100. “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