Ellen Page Quotes

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

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've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being.

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

If you can really hear more of the root cause, maybe there are ways that we can get beyond it, or destroy it, actually.

I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan.

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.

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

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.

I've never been to Ireland and I've always wanted to go.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

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.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the states. Or also have states financing. Everything's pretty small.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

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.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.