Amy Adams Quotes
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I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.
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I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
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Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.
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Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
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I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.
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I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.
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I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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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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If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?
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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.
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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.
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I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.
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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?
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Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
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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.
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I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.
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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.
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A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.
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I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.
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I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
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I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.
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