Top 90 Scarlett Johansson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’d rather be really good at something or not do it at all.”

— Scarlett Johansson

52. “It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.”

— Scarlett Johansson

53. “One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.”

— Scarlett Johansson

54. “I don’t do damsel in distress very well. It’s hard for me to play a victim.”

— Scarlett Johansson

55. “For day-to-day beauty, I’m a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips – they’re a great fix for any makeup emergencies.”

— Scarlett Johansson

56. “There’s no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn’t exist. That’s a thing of the past.”

— Scarlett Johansson

57. “A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he’s that man.”

— Scarlett Johansson

58. “LA’s a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don’t take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody’s giving each other catty looks.”

— Scarlett Johansson

59. “I like taking parts where I’m like: “I don’t know how I’m going to do this exactly but I know I can do it.” As opposed to doing something where you go: “There’s nothing that I can contribute to this.””

— Scarlett Johansson

60. “I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I’m in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.”

— Scarlett Johansson

61. “You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn’t work out.”

— Scarlett Johansson

62. “My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.”

— Scarlett Johansson

63. “It’s important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it’s nice to cuddle with somebody.”

— Scarlett Johansson

64. “Whenever I’m taking time off, all I’m thinking about is working.”

— Scarlett Johansson

65. “I’m very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face – well, sometimes I’m not comfortable with my face, but it’s stuck there and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

66. “Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don’t want handouts. They don’t want to be completely dependent on their governments – even though there’s usually no opportunity for that anyway.”

— Scarlett Johansson

67. “I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.”

— Scarlett Johansson

68. “I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.”

— Scarlett Johansson

69. “As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.”

— Scarlett Johansson

70. “My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids.”

— Scarlett Johansson

71. “I don’t profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It’s a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I’m always readjusting to it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

72. “I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.”

— Scarlett Johansson

73. “I’ve always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I’ve auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I’ve always admired the way he worked with me.”

— Scarlett Johansson

74. “It’s so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.”

— Scarlett Johansson

75. “Every actor has a production company already. It’s just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.”

— Scarlett Johansson

76. “I never really thought about getting married – it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.”

— Scarlett Johansson

77. “You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you’re talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.”

— Scarlett Johansson

78. “I don’t plan on selling out. I mean, it’s nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing for me is the actual work.”

— Scarlett Johansson

79. “I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn’t pay to see, or something that didn’t challenge me.”

— Scarlett Johansson

80. “Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.”

— Scarlett Johansson

81. “I’ve been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they’re always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they’re doing.”

— Scarlett Johansson

82. “I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I’m not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that’s it.”

— Scarlett Johansson

83. “You read statistics all the time like, “13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa,” but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears – there’s so much devastation in the world, that it’s a bit overwhelming for people.”

— Scarlett Johansson

84. “I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.”

— Scarlett Johansson

85. “I just don’t like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn’t.”

— Scarlett Johansson

86. “I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized.”

— Scarlett Johansson

87. “When I’m single, I don’t focus. I focus on a guy if he’s a boyfriend, but I don’t focus on finding a boyfriend. They’re never around when you want them.”

— Scarlett Johansson

88. “Improvisation has never been my strong point.”

— Scarlett Johansson

89. “Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it’s true.”

— Scarlett Johansson

90. “Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.”

— Scarlett Johansson

91. “As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about.”

— Scarlett Johansson

92. “These tabloid magazines – I think they’re hideous and the downfall of society.”

— Scarlett Johansson

93. “Obviously filming and working has consistently been a part of my life. I’ve never had a huge break of time when I wasn’t working on something or promoting something.”

— Scarlett Johansson

94. “I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.”

— Scarlett Johansson

95. “Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It’s hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.”

— Scarlett Johansson

96. “I want to look good, obviously. I don’t want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That’s why I take care of myself when I work...”

— Scarlett Johansson

97. “I’m good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It’s something I’ve always really enjoyed and something I’ve always been pretty fast with.”

— Scarlett Johansson

98. “I love to sing. I don’t think it’s strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don’t want to ever feel like I’m cornered into one expression of creativity because I’m successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it’s best to not paint yourself into that corner.”

— Scarlett Johansson