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Anne Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances and captivating screen presence. She gained international fame through films including The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, and Les Misérables, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013. Hathaway has received numerous accolades including Golden Globe and Emmy Awards, and is recognized for her dedication to both her craft and charitable causes.

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“I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.”

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“Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.”

Done Accomplish

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“When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.”

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“I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.”

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

Thinking Love Is

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“Im much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.”

People Talking Flirting

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“I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.”

Thinking Way Roles Terrible I Realized Relief Biggest Fear

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“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.”

Way Wells Has Beens Film Felt Walks Situation Five Minutes I Realized Five Minutes Biggest Fear Overreaching

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“[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."”

Feels Years Felt Realizing Discovery Okay Actresses Shaving

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“My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.”

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“I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.”

Long I Can Actors Sound Small Parts

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“I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.”

People Knows Feels Stage Fronts Comfortable Theater Actresses

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“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.”

Trying Persons I Can Dog Boring Boring Person

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“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.”

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“I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.”

Want Feels Opportunity Given Drink Right Now Drug Mess

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“I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.”

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“There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.”

Young Stars Party College Lifestyle

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“I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.”

Film Actors Cry Curious

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“When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: "Did you always want to be a princess growing up?" And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. And I think a lot of women feel that way. And the fact that I am actually her is such a dream come true. It's such a pinch me moment. And the fact that I am Catwoman in Chris Nolan's Gotham to Christian Bale's Batman is unbelievably cool.”

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“I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.”

Thinking Film Fun Theatre Anticipation Movie Theatre

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“I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.”

World Hard Light Turns Healthy Gym Moderates Catwoman

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“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.”

Knows Use Faces Sides Walks Cat Independent Metaphor Sense Of Humor Fence Badass Sly Catwoman

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“Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves.”

Kind Hard Helping Political Cities Shapes Directors Just Being Catwoman Gotham Gotham City

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“When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."”

Directors Nolan

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“And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.”

Ifs Thinking Perspective Make Sense Nolan

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“I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.”

Ifs Three Numbers Streets Cop Nolan Number Three

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“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.”

Care Loneliness Lonely Worried Just Being Being Alone Favorites Things All Alone Feeling Lonely Feeling Alone I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Loneliness In Life Alone Life

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“Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”

Stories Good Life Good Story Mellow

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“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.”

People Believe Stills Goodness Capacity I Still Believe

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“There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.”

People Feels Habit Patterns Desperate

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“I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.”

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“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.”

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“Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!”

Important My Own Quality Kindness Findings Sense Of Humor Charming

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“Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.”

Important Possibility Celebrate Wedding Celebrate Life

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“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.”

Knows Made Might Taken Minutes Amount Advantage Selling Gossip Considering Taken Advantage

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“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.”

People Thinking Should Fun Fashion Style Design Clothes Statements Brands Labels Hobbies Really Cool Personal Style

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“We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.”

People Ifs World War Easy Forget Attitude Citizens News Assuming Civil War Compassionate Starving Blinders Attitude Towards Life

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“What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.”

Happens Acceptance

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“Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.”

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“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.”

Believe Bigs Able Girl I Believe Women Equality Believer Equality Of People

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

World Pops Aspiration Domination World Domination

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“I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.”

People Kind Feelings Able Materials Fabric Thoughts And Feelings

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“Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'”

Want Saws Most Inspiring

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“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.”

Thinking Want Looks Long Interesting Struggle Long Time Concepts Perfection Pressure Photograph Being Yourself Very Interesting Long Time Ago Gave Up My Struggle

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“I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Actors Lost Ability Performances Chosen Thrust Public Life Spotlight

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“I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.”

Ifs Film Position If I Could Princess Isolated Diaries Thrust Lofty Princess Diaries

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“I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.”

Kind Girl Stars Type Comfort Dresses Type Of Girl

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“Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.”

Want Persons Actors Stars Planets Good Work Movie Star

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“You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.”

Technology Singing Notes Studios Recording Studio

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“Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so I can make more of an impact when I do use it. A cause like One Billion Rising is something I want to scream about, and I want you to take that scream seriously because I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

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Born: November 12, 1982
Known for: Actress
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