Top 33 Jennifer Connelly Quotes

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

That’s a great feeling to know that I’m going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It’s just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

I look very serious. I look stern even when I’m not stern. If I’m not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can’t help it. It’s just my face.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that’s sad. It’s a shame it’s so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

I was kind of a tomboy.

I can’t comment on any outside perception. I’m happy to come out and talk about movies that I’ve worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

I’ve chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It’s how I like to live. I’d rather hang out with my kids and family when I’m not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

I don’t always like my own behavior. I haven’t known anyone who is perfect all the time.

The things I’ve really loved doing over the years most consistently are running and yoga.

The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that’s enough.

Once I’m comfortable with someone, I’m not reserved. I’m a compulsive confessor.

It’s funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It’s just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me – because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I’d never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven’t since – the world will be a greyer place without him.

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.

I do a little bit of minimal brow wrangling myself. I get the strays out of the way.

I don’t know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

Growing up, being watched from the outside… it’s kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can’t, it’s not in my nature.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

I still get recognized for ‘Labyrinth’ by little girls in the weirdest places. I can’t believe they still recognize me from that movie. It’s on TV all the time, and I guess I pretty much look the same.

When it’s good it’s great, it’s really great.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences – you are who you are because of them, no matter if they’re good or bad.

Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

I pick different projects for different reasons. Usually, it’s a combination of things. I admire the director, and I am interested in working with the director. Or, it’s the cast. I can be moved by the story. The ideal situation is you love the director and you love the cast.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

I didn’t expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Strong brows is what I have, and I embrace them.

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

I’m so happy in the projects that I’m able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn’t always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I’m just a different person now, I’m 30. I started working when I was 11 and it’s a different ballgame.

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.

You can’t predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

I’ll probably at some point get involved in Instagram and things like that because I feel it’s reality, and it’s the way people communicate.