Amanda Seyfried Quotes

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people ... I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't want someone to swap out my stomach with a supermodel. I don't want dirty old men looking at me in my underwear.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

I went to art school when I was little.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it.

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

I love my apartment in New York.

Actors are separated all the time.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

I happen to be really a romantic.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

Life experience is priceless.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows. I'm a mountain girl, a meadow girl, so I feel very close to that.

My sister keeps me grounded.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

People are made up of flaws.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.