Top 60 Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who’s a one-woman man.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

2. “The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

3. “Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

4. “Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

5. “They say men and women can’t be friends, but that’s not true.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

6. “I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It’s filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz – and it was taking too much time in the morning.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

7. “Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

8. “As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

9. “I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

10. “Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

11. “I’m for all the actor’s struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

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12. “Everything goes with short hair. It’s bananas.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

13. “But I love being scared. I think you’re brave only when you do things that scare you. I’ve always used fear as a motivator. I’m not sure why.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

14. “I express myself through clothes, but clothes don’t define me.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

15. “It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

16. “I’m so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I’m big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something’s not working, it’s time to not hold people back.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

17. “I’ve never smoked crack. I’ve never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

18. “My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother’s. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

19. “Jennifer Morrison is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, in a foreign country.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

20. “I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day – it takes maybe two minutes. I can’t imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy ‘fro.’”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

21. “I cherish all of the times I’ve fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

22. “I’m a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.”

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23. “I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I’ll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

24. “I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.”

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25. “I’m insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can’t wait to have babies.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

26. “You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

27. “I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character’s costume.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

28. “I don’t diet. There’s going to be barbecues and macaroni and cheese – but I’ll have broccoli and salad the next day.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

29. “I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I’m an old, old lady.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

30. “I was like ‘No!’ I’ve never had body issues, I’ve never had an eating disorder. I’ve never had to go on a diet and that’s because of Weight Watchers.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

31. “One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I’m being followed by paparazzi.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

32. “I started reading and learned that we don’t need any of it – meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things – except maybe B12, but there’s this whole controversy that maybe we’re only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

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33. “No matter how much love is there, these aren’t two people who are actually good for each other. They don’t help each other grow. They stifle each other’s growth.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

34. “Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude’s for the magnificent work they do.”

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35. “My day-to-day wardrobe, I do mix it up. I’ll wear something from Target along with something by YSL. It’s about finding the right items that make you happy.”

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36. “I only wear heels when a stylist puts me in them.”

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37. “Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn’t know how to show his love – but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with – it was criminal.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

38. “At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

39. “I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can’t all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren’t doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

40. “Oh my gosh, I feel like I’m really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

41. “People always say a script will be ‘brought to life in a magical way,’ but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

42. “It’s a challenge to work a character’s arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

43. “I’ve always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I’ve never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from ‘Big Love’ to romantic comedy, to period film I can’t sit still.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

44. “I’m desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It’s a problem. I can’t imagine that I will not be a mother.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

45. “Couldn’t start the morning without caffeine.”

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46. “The second you go back to eating right, you’re going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

47. “I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

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48. “Romcoms are challenging, but I’m hungry for drama.”

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49. “In real life, people don’t try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.”

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50. “Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin