Top 86 Most Famous Amy Adams Quotes (ACTRESS)

Top 19 Most Famous Amy Adams Quotes (BEST)

“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
Amy Adams

I think that happiness is really just about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about being true to yourself and living your life in a way that feels authentic. — I think that **happiness** is really just about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about being true to yourself and living your **life** in a way that feels authentic.

It's important to take risks and explore new things. If you never take a chance, you'll never know what you're capable of. — It’s important to **take risks** and explore new things. If you never take a **chance**, you’ll never know what you’re capable of.

Life is too short to be anything but happy, so cherish every moment and enjoy the journey. — **Life** is too short to be anything but **happy**, so cherish every moment and enjoy the **journey**.

The best advice I ever got was to stay true to myself and never let anyone else define who I am.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naïve or stupid or unschooled. — I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive **attitude** because we assume they are naïve or stupid or unschooled.

“I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I’m afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I’m very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can’t really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can’t.”
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I always want to be learning. I always want to be growing, and I always want to be exploring new things. — I always want to be **learning**. I always want to be **growing**, and I always want to be **exploring** new things.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. — I’m just grateful I didn’t have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

“I think that there’s something really beautiful about life. Even the hard times can be beautiful, because they teach us so much about ourselves and about the world around us.”
Amy Adams

It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. — It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.

I think happiness is a choice. If you wake up every day and choose to be happy, you will be.

I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything. — I’ve always been really comfortable around athletics, I’ve just never been comfortable playing anything.

“I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl.”
Amy Adams

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So I try to do things that make me happy every day.

You’re nothing to me until you’re everything.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin. — Find out who you are & embrace it. It’s so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine. — I do **believe** that you don’t have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

3 Amy Adams Quotes on Self-Confidence and Empowerment

I think that it's really important for women to empower each other and to support each other. We're all in this together. — I think that it’s really important for women to empower each other and to support each other. We’re all in this together.

I'm not a perfect person. I'm not always confident. But I just try to be kind to myself and to others, and I think that's what really matters in life. — I’m not a perfect person. I’m not always confident. But I just try to be kind to myself and to others, and I think that’s what really matters in life.

I've learned that the more comfortable I am with myself, the more comfortable other people are around me. — I’ve learned that the more comfortable I am with myself, the more comfortable other people are around me.

11 Motivational Amy Adams Quotes About Life

“I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”
Amy Adams

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it — If you’re not **excited** by it, why do you do it?

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.

“One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I’m not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what’s around you.”
Amy Adams

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way. — I find that in life all you can do is try to be **honest** about who you are and how you’re feeling, and **trust** that it will be received in the correct way.

That's always been my philosophy I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything. — That’s always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don’t really have to question what I said or **regret** anything.

“I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I’ve really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.”
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I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have. — I think there are certain people that you’ll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake’s got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff. — What I **respect** in people more than anything is work ethic. And **Justin Timberlake**’s got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

2 Amy Adams Quotes About Love and Attraction

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity. — Falling in **love** is a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy. — A man who’s powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and **vulnerability**, that’s really sexy.

14 Amy Adams Quotes on Being an Actress

“I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.”
Amy Adams

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster. — I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and **Jodie Foster**.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

“I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.”
Amy Adams

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they’ll reference a beautifully obscure film from the ’50s or ’60s or ’70s, and I’ve not seen it. — I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they’ll reference a **beautifully** obscure film from the ’50s or ’60s or ’70s, and I’ve not seen it.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

“I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I’m not the funny one, which works out great.”
Amy Adams

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don’t on different types of films.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress. — Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

“I’m lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.”
Amy Adams

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges. — I have to say I’ve been lucky in that way in that I’ve been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing. — It’s always challenging when you’re shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.

“If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn’t want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn’t get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.”
Amy Adams

“I don’t intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there’s nothing else said about her, it just doesn’t hold a lot of interest for me.”
Amy Adams

2 Amy Adams Quotes About People

“You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it’s the people that I’ve met along the way, not the places I’ve been, that have opened my eyes.”
Amy Adams

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. — I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can’t do anything to intimidate me.

3 Amy Adams About School

“I didn’t necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I’m hoping that’s going to go away, but I’ve just embraced it as reality.”
Amy Adams

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job. — I graduated high school and I didn’t have a skill set and I didn’t want to go to college. I needed a job.

“School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I’m just bad with numbers.”
Amy Adams

4 Amy Adams Quotes on Self-Image

“When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!”
Amy Adams

As an actress people always tease me like if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it. — As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

“Perfect isn’t normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face – it’s like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.”
Amy Adams

“Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don’t see the point. I’m just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, ‘OMG, look at Amy!’ I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.”
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2 Amy Adams Quotes on Having a Baby

“Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.”
Amy Adams

Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.

5 Amy Adams Quotes About Family

“I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips – long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.”
Amy Adams

I’m one of seven kids. That’ll keep your ego in check.

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

“When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.”
Amy Adams

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

2 Amy Adams Quotes on Being a Superhero

I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into.

I’ve always really loved action films, but I don’t see myself as a superhero girl. — I’ve always really loved **action** films, but I don’t see myself as a superhero girl.

2 Amy Adams Quotes About The Muppets

I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear. — I watched ‘The Muppet Movie’ obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

4 Amy Adams Quotes About Broadway

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting. — I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and **accepting**.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A. — There’s such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can’t learn in L.A.

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage. — I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn’t know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

14 Amy Adams Quotes That Will Make You Think

“I still think I’m like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That’s still my mentality, so I’ll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.”
Amy Adams

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. — I’d love to be a diva. But I’d then have to send so many **apology** notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice. — I love accents – I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don’t have to hear my own voice.

“I’m pretty Sicilian if I’ve been crossed. I don’t seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me – ever.”
Amy Adams

I was a huge Ann-Margaret fan, and I wanted to be like her.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — I thought ‘Out of Africa’ would be a beautiful ballet.

“I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things but I’ll take that over people assuming that I’m smart just because I’m short and rude.”
Amy Adams

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it. — I’m really good at gymnastics, and that’s about it.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that. — That’s how I prepare for anything – I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I’m a bit of a nerd like that.

“I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I’m in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I’m like, ‘Go ahead, and have fun!’.”
Amy Adams

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. — I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold. — My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don’t **cry**, I get really cold.

“I would say that a lot of the characters I’ve been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in ‘The Fighter,’ not so much in ‘The Master’ – I think those are different.”
Amy Adams

“Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man.”
Amy Adams

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