Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway: I attribute so much of my career to luck. My mother always told me that luck is preparation meets opportunity. And I've been given extraordinary opportunities to work with filmmakers long before I was talented enough to deserve to work with them. But I've learned a lot from them and I just kind of keep getting hired. So, I just feel extremely lucky.

Anne Hathaway: I'm lucky I'm friends with a lot of artists and filmmakers and creators. My life is pretty wonderful. I'm one of those rare, lucky people - and there's a small percentage of them on the planet - who gets to do what they love; and really, really, really love. It's a job that, even when people love it, they don't often get to do. So, my life kind of feels like a Wonderland.

Anne Hathaway: You do have to give me credit, as far as relationships crashing & burning goes... I mean, I scorched that earth!

Anne Hathaway: Sometimes I find myself somewhere and I'm just like, 'Oh, it'd be really fun to get married here.' I really don't know what that says about me but I try not to anticipate things before they happen.

Anne Hathaway: I'm a big weirdo, so I'd love to do much more experimental stuff. And the fact I haven't done it up until now is not through a lack of desire, it's more a lack of opportunity. I just think, 'The freakier the better', you know? I know some of my choices are more mainstream and I think there is a creativity to that as well. But it's amazing to be able to say at 25-years-old, I have made a wedding movie with Kate Hudson in Bride Wars and to also say I've made a wedding movie with Jonathan Demme.

Anne Hathaway: (on filming with Dwayne Johnson in 'Get Smart') What can I say about Mr. Dwayne Johnson? If you kick him in the head he's nice about it. In the scene where I kick him in the head I would like everyone to know that it actually happened and, for the last time, I'm very, very, very sorry about it.

Anne Hathaway: (on filming a raunchy scene with Steve Carrell in "Get Smart") There was a health scare last year and a certain contact solution - I won't say the name of it but it was the one that I use - gave you conjunctivitis. I also had a sinus infection at the same time. So I had to go up to Steve, my eye is red, puffy and dripping green - I'm snotty and I'm just like "Come here!"

Anne Hathaway: (about dieting) When I'm working, I'm incredibly disciplined, because when you're portraying someone else, your body isn't your own. But when I'm not working, I think less about what I eat. For example, last night, I had a club sandwich, and two nights ago, I had pizza. You've got to live!

Anne Hathaway: Quite frankly I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Anne Hathaway: I grew up studying classic painters. They certainly didn't shy away from nudes. I don't find anything morally reprehensible about it. I think it is different to pose in a pair of hotpants on the cover of Stuff magazine. That's something I'm just not interested in doing.

Anne Hathaway: It is important to have the ability and the know-how to make all kind of good films. If that means you want to make a good film that is entertaining without cursing, or you want to make a good action film without guns, that is still entertaining.

Anne Hathaway: (On what she learned from Julie Andrews) She stood up very straight. I don't know if that's an English mannerism but I'm an American, we slouch. I love slouching - it's kind of who I am.

Anne Hathaway: To be perfectly honest, all my friends are gay men, so I wind up going out to gay clubs anyway, which have the best music, and the best dancers in the city.

Anne Hathaway: (her idea of a perfect date) Being laid back, putting on your favorite pair of flip-flops, grabbing a pizza and going to see an unexpectedly great film. Just walking and talking, when the weather is right. You know those dates when everything just comes together? And it's nothing that you could even put your finger on. You're not doing anything all that special. There's just a mood.

Anne Hathaway: College is such a unique time, because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

Anne Hathaway: (About working with Meryl Streep) As a woman--and I don't usually talk about this--Meryl has absolutely done everything that I want to do. Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.

Anne Hathaway: (about dieting for her role in "The Devil Wears Prada") I was thin for my height. I basically stuck with fruits, vegetables, and fish. I wouldn't recommend that. Emily Blunt and I would clutch each other and cry, because we were so hungry.

Anne Hathaway: (about going topless for one of her movies) It's not the most fun requirement of the job, but nor is it something that I would ever not do a job because of. It is what it is. Some people choose not to do it on moral grounds, but I think that's a shoddy argument.

Anne Hathaway: I love to cut loose with my friends, but I don't do it to get attention. I can feel really satisfied by it without anyone watching.

Anne Hathaway: I am not afraid to show myself to people. A woman is lying if she says she doesn't have a few issues, but I try to shrug them off. My best friend and I play the 'I'm glad...' game. It's like, 'I may have gained 5 lbs., but...;

Anne Hathaway: (on a romantic scene with Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain") There was this scene ... where I get my kit off and I'm in the car with Jake ... and he's touched my shoulder and he's touched my stomach and he's touched around my back everywhere except for, you know, 'the girls'. So the director yells cut and we go behind a screen and I'm putting my clothes back on and Jake comes up to me and says, 'Annie, the thing is, the scene, in real life I would, so can I?' I just turned to him and said, 'It's okay Jake, yes, you can touch my boobs.'

Anne Hathaway: I have to kind of make tough decisions on a daily basis. It's harder for a lot of reasons, presenting yourself to the world, having to sacrifice things in your personal life because of obligation. I don't complain about it because it comes with it and there are a lot of girls who would be in my own shoes and I don't want to give up my place.

Anne Hathaway: (Talking about her dream roles) I hope you see my Ophelia some day, and that it's not just the name of a boat. My dream role is Eliza Doolittle. I love Shakespeare and I'm not just saying that because of the name thing. So I would love to play all of his great heroines. Oh and I'd love to be a Bond girl very, very much. And one more is a piano virtuoso called Clara Schumann from the 18th century. She was Robert Schumann's wife and a composer in her own right and had a fascinating life.

Anne Hathaway: It is important to have the ability and the know-how to make all kind of good films. If that means you want to make a good film that is entertaining without cursing, or you want to make a good action film without guns, that is still entertaining. You can argue with me about it but I loved Charlie's Angels. It's good to be able to know how to have fun with art. I agree with what people say: to make a comedy without relying on sensationalism in any way is an art of itself.

Anne Hathaway: (When she decided she wanted to become an actor) You know what it was? When I was little, I always spent so much time in my imagination coming up with - imagining I was different people, coming up with the circumstances of their lives, playing dress up. You couldn't convince me that I wasn't these people. Then getting to see my mom act I realized that there was a profession and that people got to do it all the time, and that people got to do it to entertain other people. So it was always a huge desire of mine and I was just very lucky that I was able to do it, and that I've been able to do it kind of at the level that I've been at. When things are moving that quickly you can either keep up or get left behind, so I've been very lucky that I've worked with people that have helped me keep up.

Anne Hathaway: In Hollywood you have to be careful if you go above a six, then you're considered fat. I'm considered to be, I hope, an actress, and you can get away with a couple of extra pounds if you are trading on your talent instead of your sex appeal. I don't have time to be tortured about me weight.

Anne Hathaway: I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

Anne Hathaway: (On avoiding the hard partying young-star life style) I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things ... I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Anne Hathaway: I was 17 years old when I was cast in The Princess Diaries. That film landed, and it landed big. And so I became identified with a role that wasn't really me. I've never had any problem with going to the lengths of what a film demands. You can tell that by my eyebrows in The Princess Diaries.

Anne Hathaway: I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Anne Hathaway: I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

Anne Hathaway: You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

Anne Hathaway: (revealing she suffered from depression & anxiety as a teenager) I said to my mom the other day, 'Do you remember that girl? She has now gone now, gone to sleep. She has said her piece and she is gone. But then I thought, 'I so remember her but she is no longer part of me.' I just got through it.

Anne Hathaway: (on not being worried about gaining weight) There has always been pressure on actresses, but I will never suffer, because if I gain weight I will just become a character actress.

Anne Hathaway: (on her boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, being more fashion conscious than her) I go to my boyfriend for help to pick out everything. He is Italian so has the perfect taste. For me, style is just throwing on whatever's clean and I'll probably never change.

Anne Hathaway: (on how she lost weight) I was on vacation. We were on a boat and had a chef, so I was able to tell her to make me delicious things that were low in calories. And once I got on the set, the stress kept it down. By the way, I just have to say half of it has come back, so it's not a foolproof plan.

Anne Hathaway: (on putting on weight for 'The Devil Wears Prada') Actually, it was kind of annoying because I had surgery last year and, as a result, wound up losing quite a lot of weight. But then I talked to the director and producers and they said, 'It would be great if you could pull a Renée Zellweger and gain, like, 10 or 15 pounds'. Then I went to my first fitting with costume designer Pat Fields and she said, 'Right, that's not going to work - you can't fit into the designer clothes. Lose the 10 pounds.

Anne Hathaway: (how she deals with being apart from her boyfriend) We have a rule that we don't go longer than two weeks without seeing each other. After two weeks the phone just doesn't do it any more and we start to get snippy.

Anne Hathaway: (on Italian boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri) I'll just say we're very happy and getting to spend so much time around another culture has obviously broadened my perspective.

Anne Hathaway: It does kind of bother me when people come up and say, "It's so refreshing to see someone regular in Hollywood". I'm like, "What does that mean?" I don't want to be the regular girl because that's a code word for fat by the Hollywood system.

Anne Hathaway: They had an odor all their own. They could stand up by themselves. I never want to see those damn things again. (Anne kept none of her designer wardrobe from the movie The Devil Wears Prada because they were never laundered throughout the months of filming.)

Anne Hathaway: My parents used to get very nervous when I was in high school because I would get a test back with a 98% and all I could see was the 2% that I missed.

Anne Hathaway: (asked to define style…) Something I don't have! [laughs] It's dressing in a way that makes you comfortable. Style for me is someone who puts a little thought into it.

Anne Hathaway: (on the positive influence The Devil Wears Prada had on her) I was always intimidated by fashion and felt like it wasn't something I was cool enough to handle. After the movie I realized they are just clothes and I shouldn't be thinking about it so much.