I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose. Scarlett Johansson More Quotes by Scarlett Johansson More Quotes From Scarlett Johansson I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life. Scarlett Johansson detailseverydaythinking I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical. Scarlett Johansson i-love-musicmusicalacting 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. Scarlett Johansson hanging-outwantpeople I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success. Scarlett Johansson secretmorningcharacter Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway. Scarlett Johansson governmentopportunityamerica I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it. Scarlett Johansson focusdonethinking There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam. Scarlett Johansson classopportunitymean Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company. Scarlett Johansson labelsactorsmatter I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic. Scarlett Johansson citiesnew-yorkorder 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. Scarlett Johansson givingpeoplethinking My parents never put a lot of pressure on us to be any kind of way.... I have my funny moments where I look at myself and think, Oh, this is a disaster. But you have to give yourself a reality check and go, All right, if I feel this way, I'm going to do something about it that's healthy. I can't look at somebody who is 6 feet tall and 120 pounds and say, I'm going to get that body. That's just never going to happen. You have to work with what you've got. Scarlett Johansson givingrealitythinking I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. Scarlett Johansson burgersdrippingfaces I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change. Scarlett Johansson iowacitiesyears There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song. Scarlett Johansson songcharactermemories I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady. Scarlett Johansson actorsusepeople Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man. Scarlett Johansson sexystupidmen I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not. Scarlett Johansson trendstryinglooks I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then. Scarlett Johansson cellulitevideogames My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas. Scarlett Johansson motherhomefather I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer. Scarlett Johansson shimmeradd
