Quotes By Scarlett Johansson

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over.

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

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

I believe in finding a soulmate.

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

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

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

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

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'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 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?'

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

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

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

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

I have always... expected a lot from myself.

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

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

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

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

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

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.