Quotes from Scarlett Johansson

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

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

Obviously filming and working has consistently been a part of my life. I've never had a huge break of time when I wasn't working on something or promoting something.

I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience.

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.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.

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 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.

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?'

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

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.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

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

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.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

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

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

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

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

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 don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.