Quotes
- "The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.”
- “I'm not that comfortable when I get recognized."
- "I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies."
- "I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message."
- "When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet."
- "Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid."
- "When I was 12, I realized I was very uncomfortable having my parents on set. So I told them that, and they understood."
- “As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?”
- “I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.”
- “I do think I’m totally romantic, it's disgusting.”
- “Anyone who gets me is really lucky because I'm not really crazy about jewelry or flowers.”
- “I'm obviously not an actor for awards but of course it's exciting and it's lovely when people like what you did.”
- “Brad Pitt has not sent me a card, no, which I'm furious about!”
- “I come in at night and expect to see some transparent slut at the top of the stairs.” [On her 19th century Halifax home, a former brothel]
- “It was an intense movie and the response was polarized -- which was great, because it stuck in people's minds. That film has helped me immensely.” [On Hard Candy.]
- “I'm a total shrimp, which makes me look younger. I'll be able to stay in that area longer, which is good, because there's more competition in your 20s.” [on her slight frame]
- “I would just tell her that I adore her, and I think ‘Horses’ is one of the greatest albums of all time. Her music paralyzes me. It is so beautiful, and it makes me want to rip my clothes off and run through the streets!” [On her idol Patti Smith]
- “For the role in An American Crime, when I played someone who was starved and tortured, I lost a lot of weight, and my body and my mind were drained. After that people told me, You really need to do a comedy. And I said I am -- I'm playing a 16-year-old who gets pregnant!”
- “You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but you'll be second-guessing yourself -- there's just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think we're all capable of anything.”
- “It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine... is often much harder to act.”
- “I loved that this girl was mature in some ways, and naive in other ways. Juno is different from what we normally see in films about teenagers -- but at the same time she has a lot in common with most of the people I knew in high school. There are a lot of really intelligent teenage girls and boys who are unique and don't just listen to and dress like Britney Spears, and who don't just want to fuck the hot guy.”
- “What I like about the film [Juno] is that it tackles an issue that we often treat as this really heavy, dark event and we look at it with a different perspective. She's extremely independent. She finds adoptive parents before she even tells her parents. I just think it's nice to not dwell in darkness.”
Quotes from other people
- “Ellen is exactly like you'd expect: serious, thoughtful, funny, smart and beautiful."
- Peacock costar Susan Sarandon - "I can’t give Ellen Page advice, she’s too smart.”
- Oscar nominee and actor George Clooney - “There is an amazing young actress named Ellen Page in it who you might be familiar with. She's from Hard Candy and X-Men 3. She's got a ton of movies coming out. She's kind of taking the industry by storm which is weird because she's like 4'11" and probably weights 95lbs, but she's just preternaturally gifted like Leonardo DiCaprio was in This Boy's Life, just a force, a force to be reckoned with”
- Smart People costar Thomas Haden Church - “She's a genius.”
- Smart People director Noam Murro - “Ellen Page is as arresting and soulful a performer as I have seen in a very long time."
- Juno producer and actor John Malkovich - “She reminds me of a young Audrey Hepburn. There is something beautifully feminine about her and yet she’s playing this incredibly tough, cool character. She’s fearless. I’ve just been so impressed with her and I adore her. She’s amazing.”
- Juno costar Allison Janney - “She’s just a beautiful and incredible actress. The minute we started rehearsal, I thought, who are you, and where did you come from, and how did Jason [Reitman] find you? She’s gonna blow people out of the water. She’s going to be a very important actress.”
- Juno costar Jennifer Garner - "I think Ellen Page is hott, double-t hott. All that sexual tension will probably be on the 25th-anniversary DVD as the torrid erotic scenes between Rollo and Juno. I think they bathe in a bathtub of Sunny D and get it on."
- Juno costar Rainn Wilson - "Ellen's performance never winks at itself, even though the character compulsively does so. Watching her play is nothing short of astonishing."
- her good friend Ben Foster on Juno - “I'm kind of obsessed with Ellen Page right now. I think I've seen Juno four times. I like to just stare at her.
She's pretty incredible.”
- actress Christina Applegate - “Ellen's tougher than I am. She could take me, man. Unless I'm scrappier than I appear. Which I might be.”
- actress Amy Adams on the question “In an Amy Adams vs. Ellen Page "It Girl" smackdown, who wins?” - "It's all about Ellen. She's gorgeous."
- actress Isla Fisher, who just saw and fell in love with Juno and its Oscar-nominated star Ellen Page - “I'm very proud of her. She was just incredible. You could tell that even then when she was 15. You knew she had this ridiculous head on her shoulders, an enormous amount of talent and passion for what she was doing. The film we made was a tough film to make, and she was the main part in that. It was tough. I remember she had to shave her head bald, which she did willingly. I keep thinking our paths might cross, but they haven't. I've seen our photos next to each other, but our paths haven't crossed yet. I hope so, as it'll be great to see her.”
- Mouth to Mouth costar Jim Sturgess - "She still lives in Halifax, and I am pretty sure she'll just come home and stay at home. Fame is a tough ride, it's a very tough ride. There's a tremendous amount of expectations on her but she's got a really good head on her shoulders."
- Hard Candy costar Sandra Oh
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