Top 40 Sophia Bush Quotes

Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can ‘pray away the gay;’ I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it’s okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it’s funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn’t do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it’s like you don’t ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it’s kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it’s probably because you need the sleep.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it’s insulting to God.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

To me, I think people who don’t think it’s a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they’re being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else’s head and I love that.

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you’re trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn’t seem to fit well.

I’m not a celebrity. I don’t call myself a celebrity. I’m an actor.

I love boxing. There’s something fierce about using your body’s force that way.

I believe people are inherently magical and good.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

If I wasn’t an actor, I’d probably be working in journalism.

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams’s Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents’ house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

I started, whenever I got to a city, just getting on Style Seat, which is the most incredible app for any girl who doesn’t have 100 stylists at her fingertips. I can see who’s well-rated and whose portfolio I like, and then book an appointment all from my phone, which made having bangs a lot easier.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we’ve all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

In the initial season of a show, you’re figuring out your character and their life and their background and you’re putting together all the chapters of the book.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

So, I’m always around video games but I’ve always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don’t know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that’s always what’s held my interest about them.

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you’re so lucky.

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

I’m a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I’ll crack a joke, then worry if I’ve offended someone – even when they’re laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I’m really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, and now Cara Delevingne for making that such a thing. For those of us who were born that way, it’s kind of nice.

Two people who I think have the world’s most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there’s something to being named Kate, I don’t know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother’s shoes.

My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper’s Batman.

I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

I’ve always wanted to fight for people who didn’t have arms. I’ve always wanted to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. I’ve always wanted to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. It’s my nature. It’s my instinct.

I want to play everything. I really want to do it all.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

I believe in the joyous power of an unscheduled dance break.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

We’ve all known a John Tucker. We’ve either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.