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  • Actress
  • born 1983
  • 151 quotes

Greta Gerwig, an actress (born 1983), is quoted 151 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Needs, Interested, Thinking and New York.

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I don't do well when I don't work.

You don't need love and sex in films

I like things that look like mistakes.

Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat.

I love musicals. I grew up on musicals.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings.

I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great.

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

I was a massive Whit Stillman fan. Groupie. I would have done anything for him.

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other.

When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.

I think it's true of a lot of teenagers that you're convinced that life is happening somewhere else.

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter.

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

I feel like a good pair of diamond studs goes a long way. They make everything look dressy, and you just seem more put together.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I love movies, so getting to be in the conversation and meet some of my heroes has been so fun. It's just the most fun thing ever.

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

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