Top 35 Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I’ll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

I love Valentine’s Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is ‘When Harry Met Sally.’

Oh my gosh, I feel like I’m really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude’s for the magnificent work they do.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor.

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

Couldn’t start the morning without caffeine.

I only wear heels when a stylist puts me in them.

But I love being scared. I think you’re brave only when you do things that scare you. I’ve always used fear as a motivator. I’m not sure why.

I’ve always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I’ve never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from ‘Big Love’ to romantic comedy, to period film… I can’t sit still.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don’t define me.

In real life, people don’t try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

People always say a script will be ‘brought to life in a magical way,’ but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm’s slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

Costume designers don’t care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.

Romcoms are challenging, but I’m hungry for drama.

I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse – I can’t support it in fundamentalist compounds.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I perpetuate rumors that I’ve dated people that I’ve never actually dated.

I’m so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I’m big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something’s not working, it’s time to not hold people back.

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn’t know how to show his love – but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with – it was criminal.

I started reading and learned that we don’t need any of it – meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things – except maybe B12, but there’s this whole controversy that maybe we’re only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.

I’m not nomadic by nature.

I’m a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.

I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there’s no processed food in my life. There’s no inorganic food in my life these days. There’s no junk food. There’s not a lot of sugar. There’s no soy. I mean, really everything that’s going into my body is pretty pure.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I’m an old, old lady.

When I’m doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I’m like, ‘I don’t want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you’re rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that’s amazing.’

Everything goes with short hair. It’s bananas.

But often times, I feel like I’m so blessed, it’s not fair. That what I’m doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day – it takes maybe two minutes. I can’t imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy ‘fro.’

I’m for all the actor’s struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.