Top 40 Hayden Panettiere Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Every girl likes feeling hot and sexy and beautiful and likes hearing it.”

— Hayden Panettiere

2. “I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn’t a difficult thing to pull out.”

— Hayden Panettiere

3. “Beauty is an opinion not a fact.”

— Hayden Panettiere

4. “I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.”

— Hayden Panettiere

5. “I don’t have a model’s body. But I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?”

— Hayden Panettiere

6. “People can tell when you’re happy with being you and when you’re not. It’s only cheesy because it’s true. As I’ve gotten older and grown into my body, I’ve started realizing that the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you.”

— Hayden Panettiere

7. “Some people ask me whether I’m a ‘mama’s girl’ or a ‘papa’s girl.’ I’m nobody’s girl. My brother clings to our parents; I’m the one shoving them out the door.”

— Hayden Panettiere

8. “I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.”

— Hayden Panettiere

9. “Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there’s nothing that I feel like I can’t accomplish while having children in my life. I would sacrifice having more years of being wherever I want whenever I want for years with my kids.”

— Hayden Panettiere

10. “The funny thing is that people see one film like ‘Racing Stripes’ or ‘Ice Princess’ and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of ’that’s what she’s always involved in.”

— Hayden Panettiere

11. “I think at the age I’m at, it’s really hard for a film career, and I’m at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.”

— Hayden Panettiere

12. “I don’t generally like to watch myself.”

— Hayden Panettiere

13. “I hate how people say I’m growing up fast.”

— Hayden Panettiere

14. “I kind of wish I’d been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.”

— Hayden Panettiere

15. “Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I’m a huge pasta fan.”

— Hayden Panettiere

16. “I’ve always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That’s the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.”

— Hayden Panettiere

17. “It’s important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there’s a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that’s shared by everybody. It’s not just purely your own.”

— Hayden Panettiere

18. “I love to learn. But just going back into school because of what I do I’m so set in this path that I’m on right now and I’m so excited about it and I love doing it so much that I like to focus myself on one thing at a time.”

— Hayden Panettiere

19. “There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.”

— Hayden Panettiere

20. “You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I’m a normal person. Just because I’m in the spotlight doesn’t mean I’m God’s gift to the world. I’m learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.”

— Hayden Panettiere

21. “I just celebrated my fourth birthday on the set, my fourth birthday cake. So it’s been awhile and, you know, I grew up with these guys.”

— Hayden Panettiere

22. “I know I personally get a little rusty when I’ve jumped back and forth.”

— Hayden Panettiere

23. “I don’t think anything has been set in stone yet.”

— Hayden Panettiere

24. “I’m actually kind of more adventurous. I like to go out on the floors and try to be incognito. Because it’s more fun to be out there. So – when people do recognize you it’s a little bit scarier.”

— Hayden Panettiere

25. “I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.”

— Hayden Panettiere

26. “I’m just afraid somebody’s going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.”

— Hayden Panettiere

27. “It’s when you’re not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It’s about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don’t need to be in a relationship. You don’t need anyone to fulfill you.”

— Hayden Panettiere

28. “I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.”

— Hayden Panettiere

29. “I love to do movies. That’s something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.”

— Hayden Panettiere

30. “I don’t really have a plan. I’ve lived a very big life, and I don’t feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.”

— Hayden Panettiere

31. “I remember hearing in first grade, ‘Oh, why does she get to skip school?’ It wasn’t like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.”

— Hayden Panettiere

32. “I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there’s always that fun balance of, you know, trying to keep it light and, you know, light-hearted and put in the comedy while trying to make it into drama.”

— Hayden Panettiere

33. “Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you’ve got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it’s a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.”

— Hayden Panettiere

34. “My parents are really good people – they just are not meant to be together.”

— Hayden Panettiere

35. “I’ve always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don’t want to limit myself.”

— Hayden Panettiere

36. “You definitely care about your character because you wear it and you’re associated to it by all means and I love the change and spontaneity. At the same time, you know, acting is a profession and you realize that this character is not necessarily your property.”

— Hayden Panettiere

37. “I find when I’m overly concerned about what I eat, I stress out my body and put on weight.”

— Hayden Panettiere

38. “When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!”

— Hayden Panettiere

39. “I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That’s got to be the most terrified I’ve ever been in my life. I don’t know if that’s saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.”

— Hayden Panettiere

40. “I can be very dry and sarcastic.”

— Hayden Panettiere

41. “I’m even though I’m not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I’m still learning all the time.”

— Hayden Panettiere

42. “I’ve always had great relationships and stayed really good friends with the guys I’ve dated.”

— Hayden Panettiere

43. “You just have this freedom when you’re younger – this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I’ve found has kind of deteriorated over time.”

— Hayden Panettiere