Top 90 Scarlett Johansson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it’s the best way to travel.”

— Scarlett Johansson

2. “It’s nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you’re alive, you know?”

— Scarlett Johansson

3. “I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.”

— Scarlett Johansson

4. “I’m happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.”

— Scarlett Johansson

5. “I value my privacy and my personal life – and I certainly don’t exploit my personal life.”

— Scarlett Johansson

6. “When we live our lives everyday, we’re met by opportunities, and most of us don’t even recognize them.”

— Scarlett Johansson

7. “I’m just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.”

— Scarlett Johansson

8. “I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.”

— Scarlett Johansson

9. “I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.”

— Scarlett Johansson

10. “I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.”

— Scarlett Johansson

11. “Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.”

— Scarlett Johansson

12. “I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.”

— Scarlett Johansson

13. “My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.”

— Scarlett Johansson

14. “If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.”

— Scarlett Johansson

15. “It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.”

— Scarlett Johansson

16. “I don’t have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don’t know how I feel about this idea of, “Now, I’m eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I’m having dinner at this time.” or “I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids.” That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.”

— Scarlett Johansson

17. “Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man.”

— Scarlett Johansson

18. “I think it’s important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.”

— Scarlett Johansson

19. “I believe in finding a soulmate.”

— Scarlett Johansson

20. “There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .”

— Scarlett Johansson

21. “I’m not a statistician, but it doesn’t take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it’s obvious that’s wrong.”

— Scarlett Johansson

22. “Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn’t have any inspiration for it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

23. “When I’m not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .”

— Scarlett Johansson

24. “People are fed up – and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.”

— Scarlett Johansson

25. “I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you’re not slightly terrified that you’re going to fail all the time.”

— Scarlett Johansson

26. “I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.”

— Scarlett Johansson

27. “I’m just a big believer in ‘you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,’ and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships...”

— Scarlett Johansson

28. “I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don’t want to be an old hag. There’s no fun in that.”

— Scarlett Johansson

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29. “I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn’t have any cellulite then.”

— Scarlett Johansson

30. “I don’t think I need too much help. I think my head’s on pretty straight, and I’m pretty realistic about things. I’m very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.”

— Scarlett Johansson

31. “I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don’t know how you do it. I don’t know how anybody’s ever done it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

32. “I’m terrified to ride a bike in a city – and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I’ve just heard enough stories – I have enough friends who’ve been hit by taxicabs and things.”

— Scarlett Johansson

33. “You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.”

— Scarlett Johansson

34. “The truth isn’t all things to all people all of the time.”

— Scarlett Johansson

35. “I don’t think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don’t want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That’s the most unsexy thing.”

— Scarlett Johansson

36. “I’m all about fashion, cheeseburgers and bright-red lipstick.”

— Scarlett Johansson

37. “If you have breakouts, it can be really healing, it’s a little bit stinky, but if you’re not sleeping over at your boyfriend’s, it’s really effective.”

— Scarlett Johansson

38. “I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer.”

— Scarlett Johansson

39. “I don’t feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a body that’s not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

40. “I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.”

— Scarlett Johansson

41. “I’m not anxious to starve myself. For me, it’s not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.”

— Scarlett Johansson

42. “What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?”

— Scarlett Johansson

43. “It’s important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else – to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.”

— Scarlett Johansson

44. “You have to believe that you can act and that you’re the right person for the job but I think it’s good to not always know how you’re going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.”

— Scarlett Johansson

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45. “I’m always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I’d rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I’d be a happy lady.”

— Scarlett Johansson

46. “I don’t want to be the ingenue anymore. It’s nice to be glamorous, but I don’t want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn’t last.”

— Scarlett Johansson

47. “If you open up a magazine and there’s a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person – I don’t care what you do – would be mortified. It’s no wonder people get crazy about it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

48. “I don’t profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn’t know, or how to make it right. I don’t want to read about somebody who’s giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.”

— Scarlett Johansson

49. “I’d rather be really good at something or not do it at all.”

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50. “I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that’s the secret to my success.”

— Scarlett Johansson