Top 80 Ellen Page Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.”

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2. “This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.”

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3. “Judging people you don’t know for things you don’t understand is just really stupid.”

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4. “I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.”

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5. “I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.”

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6. “When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.”

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7. “Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.”

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8. “I think the most terrifying things I’ve seen have been created by human beings in reality.”

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9. “As a girl, you’re supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?”

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10. “I don’t know why people are so reluctant to say they’re feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?”

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11. “Movies don’t necessarily change culture. I don’t know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.”

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12. “If you’re perpetuating discrimination, you’re perpetuating inequality.”

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13. “You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.”

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14. “We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We’re not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we’re always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.”

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15. “I don’t want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I’m grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I’m not doing it.”

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16. “I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.”

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17. “This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other’s beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences – that’s not hard – it’s really an easier and better way to live.”

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18. “I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn’t exist, and I wish that’s what the show could just be, but sadly that’s not the situation around the world.”

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19. “You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.”

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20. “I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that’s all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I’m supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.”

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21. “Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?”

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22. “I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.”

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23. “I’m a tomboy from Nova Scotia.”

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24. “I’m a huge Sissy Spacek fan.”

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25. “Mind you, Roman Holiday – which is kind of a romantic comedy – is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.”

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26. “And I’ve shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I’ve shot in some intense, intense temperatures.”

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27. “When I feel strongly about something, I’m not so quiet.”

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28. “I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.”

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29. “Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.”

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30. “If you’re a girl and you don’t fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man’s perspective, then you’re a little bit at a loss.”

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31. “I just don’t think I’m special because I’m an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don’t take myself seriously.”

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32. “It’s weird because here I am, an actress, representing – at least in some sense – an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.”

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33. “It’s just something we’re talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege – the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.”

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34. “You should have gone to China. You know, ’cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those T-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.”

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35. “I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.”

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36. “To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing – that is a gift.”

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37. “I don’t care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie’s message.”

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38. “Of course you have days that are long, you’re tired, and things aren’t working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren’t expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.”

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39. “I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.”

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40. “The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.”

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41. “Now, I try not to read gossip as a rule. But the other day, a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. And the writer asked, ‘Why does this petite beauty insist on dressing like a massive man?’ Because I like to be comfortable.”

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42. “I’m not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I’m not used to watching myself as myself.”

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43. “I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.”

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44. “I’m kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.”

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45. “I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.”

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46. “Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry – because I’m like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It’s inspirational.”

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47. “And I think it’s really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people’s lives.”

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48. “I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.”

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49. “I think it’s obvious when you’re watching a movie, and there’s people fighting or someone’s slipping on the side of the building, that it’s fake and it really removes you from it.”

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50. “Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.”

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