Scarlett Johansson Quotes

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.

I think most of the impact I have over time most people will not actually know about.

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

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

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

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

I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.

I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

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

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I’m not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that’s it.

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

I believe in finding a soulmate.

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

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

Sometimes I live in Paris for a couple of months, then I have a job some place, and then I come back to New York. I guess my base is New York-ish, ’cause my family is here. But my husband’s family is all in Paris, so we try to spend a lot of time there, also. Especially now that we have Rose.

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

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it’s the same is lying.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

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

There’s no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn’t exist. That’s a thing of the past.

These tabloid magazines – I think they’re hideous and the downfall of society.

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

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.

I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.

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

I’d rather go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner than any awards show.