I feel like we've inherited modern infrastructure, and I could run away from it and become a full-time activist, or I can try to do my job, and try to talk about things I care about, and be able to do something like sponsor a topsoil conference in Nova Scotia, and talk about Bill McKibben, and narrate a documentary about the vanishing of the bees, and try to navigate my way through this world the best way possible. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Probably like many people right now.
Ellen PageI just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, Iโll give you everything until I collapse. Thatโs not in any โLook at me, Iโm a saintโ kind of way. Itโs very selfish in a way. Iโm doing this really awesome exploration, and itโs like a drug, because I completely disappear.
Ellen PageYou hear things like, โPeople shouldnโt know about your life because youโre creating an illusion on-screen.โ But I donโt see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. Thatโs an unfair double standard.
Ellen PageI donโt believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
Ellen Page