Top 35 Scarlett Johansson Quotes

I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.

When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it’s not like I’m always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.

I’ve never been a superhero-comic fan exactly.

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.

I value my privacy and my personal life – and I certainly don’t exploit my personal life.

When I decide I want to have children with somebody, I think it would be nice to be married to that person.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years’ time our children are going to look back and say, ‘What? You were around when gay people weren’t allowed to get married?’

Chickens scare me. I don’t like them. They seem a little floppy or something.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn’t have any cellulite then.

It’s nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you’re alive, you know?

Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they’re going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It’s so old-fashioned… It’s so uninspired and actually really cowardly.

I’ve always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed – sexism is real.

I don’t go to McDonald’s anymore. After I saw Super Size Me… no way!

I mean, it’s nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it’s a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.

It’s important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else – to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

I’m not anxious to starve myself. For me, it’s not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

I work a lot, so I don’t really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn’t work out.

I like this job. I like doing it. It’s good to be challenged like that.

I believe in finding a soulmate.

I believe in finding a soul mate. I’ve always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It’d be too awful. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don’t think it applies to everybody, and I don’t think a lot of people can do it.

I’m happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I don’t think it’s natural to be a monogamous person.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don’t want to be an old hag. There’s no fun in that.

If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience.

I don’t do damsel in distress very well. It’s hard for me to play a victim.

I have always… expected a lot from myself.