Anne Hathaway Quotes

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress and singer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses in 2015, she has received multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a British Academy Film Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award. Her films have earned her over $6.4 billion worldwide, and she appeared in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2009.

Table of Contents:

1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. Filmography

4. Awards and nominations

5. Personal life

6. Philanthropy

7. Top Anne Hathaway Quotes

Early life and education:

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 12, 1982. Her father, Gerald, is a labor attorney, and her mother, Kate (née McCauley), is a former actress who inspired Hathaway to follow in her footsteps. Hathaway has an older brother, Michael, and a younger brother, Thomas.

Hathaway was raised as a Catholic and attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn, New Jersey. When she was six, her family moved to a farm in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she attended the Bowman Avenue Elementary School. Hathaway was raised mostly as a Roman Catholic, and she has stated that she attended Catholic schools.

In an interview with The Times, she commented, “I was raised very strictly Catholic, but I don’t consider myself extremely religious. I think I have a lot of faith. I am a spiritual person.”

Career:

Hathaway began acting in stage productions with the Manhattan Theatre Club and the New York Shakespeare Festival. From there, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real before landing her breakthrough role as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (2001). Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 films Brokeback Mountain and Havoc.

Hathaway’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) earned her several awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She followed this with roles in Becoming Jane (2007), Get Smart (2008), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2010, Hathaway starred in the box office hits Valentine’s Day and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables.

Hathaway has since appeared in Rio 2 (2014), Interstellar (2014), The Intern (2015), and Ocean’s 8 (2018).

Filmography:

-The Princess Diaries (2001)

-The Other Side of Heaven (2001)

-Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

-The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

-Ella Enchanted (2004)

-Havoc (2005)

-Brokeback Mountain (2005)

-The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

-Becoming Jane (2007)

-Get Smart (2008)

-Rachel Getting Married (2008)

-Valentine’s Day (2010)

-Alice in Wonderland (2010)

-Love and Other Drugs (2010)

-One Day (2011)

-The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

-Les Misérables (2012)

-The Intern (2015)

-Interstellar (2014)

-Ocean’s 8 (2018)

Awards and nominations:

-Won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables (2012)

-Won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables (2012)

-Won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Les Misérables (2012)

-Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables (2012)

Personal life:

Hathaway became engaged to actor and jewelry designer Adam Shulman in November 2008, with whom she had been in a relationship for four years. They married in September 2012 in Big Sur, California. In March 2016, Hathaway announced that she and Shulman were expecting their first child. Their son, Jonathan, was born in March 2016.

Philanthropy:

Hathaway is involved in several charities. She is a member of the board of directors for the Lollipop Theater Network, a non-profit organization that brings children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses to screenings of new films. She is also an ambassador for the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s “Do Something” campaign, which encourages young people to get involved in their communities.

Hathaway has also donated money to several causes. In 2010, she auctioned off her engagement ring to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake. In 2012, she auctioned off her “Les Misérables” costume to benefit the American Repertory Theater.

Top Anne Hathaway Quotes:

“You’re only human. You don’t have to have it together every minute of the day.”— Anne Hathaway

“Love is a human experience, not a political statement.”— Anne Hathaway

“A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.”— Anne Hathaway

“If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.”— Anne Hathaway

“I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.”— Anne Hathaway

“I am a girl without game. I’m not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.”— Anne Hathaway

“Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”— Anne Hathaway

“I think nudity is related to everything.”— Anne Hathaway

“I’d love to be an artist that’s multifaceted.”— Anne Hathaway

“I had a dream. And it came true.”— Anne Hathaway

“I loved Catwoman’s sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don’t know which side she’s going to come down on. She’s totally independent. And let’s face it, she’s badass.”— Anne Hathaway

“My acting wasn’t the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.”— Anne Hathaway

“I see myself as improving. I think I’m a very curious person, and I like that about myself .”— Anne Hathaway

“Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.”— Anne Hathaway

“Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.”— 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 live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it’s amazing how beautiful every day can be.”— Anne Hathaway

“Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.”— Anne Hathaway

“But you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.”— Anne Hathaway

“I would never have gotten married if it weren’t for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.”— Anne Hathaway

“My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I’m having a bad day, I’m like: “Oh, you know what? I’m going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!””— Anne Hathaway

“Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie’s not saying that you don’t have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you’re going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you’re doing.”— Anne Hathaway

“You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”— Anne Hathaway

“I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.”— Anne Hathaway

“My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.”— Anne Hathaway

“I’m a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It’s all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy.”— Anne Hathaway

“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it’s turned out really well; and I’ve had other situations where I’ve had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.”— Anne Hathaway

“Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.”— Anne Hathaway

“I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don’t think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your ‘significant other’ if you have one.”— Anne Hathaway

“Mia: I can’t do this, I’m a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?”— Anne Hathaway

“I’m a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I’m just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.”— Anne Hathaway

“In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.”— Anne Hathaway

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”— Anne Hathaway

“It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.”— Anne Hathaway

“I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”— Anne Hathaway

“There’s nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What’s wrong is changing yourself for something you don’t really care about just to get somewhere faster.”— Anne Hathaway

“Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.”— Anne Hathaway

“Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.”— Anne Hathaway

“Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.”— Anne Hathaway

“I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.”— Anne Hathaway

“There’s nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.”— Anne Hathaway

“I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.”— Anne Hathaway

“Here’s how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place…”— Anne Hathaway

“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, ‘How come I’m not in New York?’ That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it.”— Anne Hathaway

“A lot of people have told me, ‘You’re not this and so can’t play that,’ and I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve been told I’m not sexy. I don’t wear my sexiness overtly doesn’t mean that I can’t become that girl for a role. That’s what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.”— Anne Hathaway

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

“I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.”— 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

“I’ve honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.”— Anne Hathaway

“I think the only thing in life that you really have to worry about is how you treat other people. If you mess up and treat someone else badly, you apologize, and you don’t apologize for anything else. Be yourself and go for it.”— Anne Hathaway

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