Top 35 Elisha Cuthbert Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

2. “I’ve always wanted to shave my head for a role because I’ve wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don’t know what the fascination is.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

3. “When I was 20, I thought I was 30 – but I was so far from it. When you’re young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

4. “I’m a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I’ve got a garden. I’m very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

5. “I’m used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

6. “A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

7. “I don’t look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

8. “I don’t like anything that’s too confining. I’m sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I’m out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it’s good to live a little!”

— Elisha Cuthbert

9. “I think it’s so wrong to play the victim. There’s too many brave women out there that just won’t even tolerate it, you know?”

— Elisha Cuthbert

10. “As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don’t care whether it’s a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

11. “The problem with TV now is that there’s so much competition, that you’re always on the chopping block.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

12. “The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

13. “I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

14. “I love horror films, so I guess it’s one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

15. “I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

16. “To sit through a film where you’re just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

17. “Yeah, I’ve gotten a few letters from prison.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

18. “I watch what I eat obviously. I’m not a regular gym-goer but I’m conscious of it.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

19. “It’s hard to be scared if you don’t feel for a character, because you don’t care if they die or live.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

20. “I just don’t like showing everything I’ve got. I don’t want to look like I’m trying too hard to be sexy.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

21. “The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna’s. She has the most incredible physique – and the woman’s in her 50s!”

— Elisha Cuthbert

22. “I Feel like I’m one of the Simpsons.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

23. “I don’t think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It’s kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

24. “Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

25. “I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

26. “I guess there’s a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

27. “That’s when you know a horror film delivers – when you’re walking out of the theater going ‘Oh my God!’ You can’t get the images out of your mind.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

28. “I think, as an artist, whether you’re making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited – the fact that you’re generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

29. “I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I’m getting really good at it and I’m having a good time making them.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

30. “I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

31. “I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

32. “I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

33. “I don’t ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

34. “I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn’t come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn’t mean I can’t do them – I’ve done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

35. “I don’t like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

36. “I’ve always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That’s lame. It’s already been done, so why do it again?”

— Elisha Cuthbert

37. “You know, I’ve never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

38. “I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.”

— Elisha Cuthbert

39. “Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.”

— Elisha Cuthbert