Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it. Ellen Page More Quotes by Ellen Page More Quotes From Ellen Page I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. Ellen Page hate office men And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. Ellen Page hypocrisy people thinking I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. Ellen Page nicknames this-world world I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it. Ellen Page grateful able want The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do. Ellen Page girl powerful meaningful I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message. Ellen Page character people thinking I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word. Ellen Page destiny hate dirty I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen. Ellen Page care kind stuff I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it. Ellen Page fighting people thinking I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost. Ellen Page learning-more geek lost But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties. Ellen Page support actors twenties I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia. Ellen Page nova-scotia novas I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates. Ellen Page quads ice kids X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way. Ellen Page x-men men way I think the bottom line is that we have to learn from what's going on in other countries. We have to learn from what people are doing to and live fully in really dire, hard circumstances, and then compare that to our own experience. Ellen Page country people thinking I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. It kind of removes me, somehow. And maybe at some point, yeah, it could be a really cool experience. It's not something that I consciously think, "Oh yeah, I want to do a movie with an accent." Not to say that it couldn't happen. Ellen Page kind sometimes thinking I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest. Ellen Page honest choices people I don't get competitive, really. So I don't know. If I'm excited about something, hopefully someone will think, "Oh right, you should do this." And that's great. I'm not being very articulate about this. I just don't want to do stuff if I'm going to feel bummed out and uninspired. Ellen Page hopefully excited thinking If you can really hear more of the root cause, maybe there are ways that we can get beyond it, or destroy it, actually. Ellen Page Climate change that is occurring right now is causing so much suffering all around the world. Whether it's adding 30 million people to the "at risk of starvation" list in 2008, whether it's the floods in Pakistan, or entire cultures at risk of disappearing, or desertification in Africa - all these things that are currently being caused by climate change. I think it's something that a lot of people want to figure out: how to make the shift, how to help. It seems like such an overwhelming problem. Ellen Page risk people thinking
