Quotes from Amanda Seyfried


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I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.


Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.


I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.


I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.


I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.


I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.


I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.


A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.


I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.


Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.


My sister keeps me grounded.


I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.


Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.


I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.


Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.


Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'


I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.


I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.


Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.


I love my apartment in New York.