Amy Adams
Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adamsis an American actress and singer. She began her career on stage performing in dinner theatre and went on to make her feature film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angeles, she made several appearances on television and in B movies before portraying the part of Frank Abagnale's girlfriend in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. Her breakthrough role came in the 2005 independent film Junebug, in which she played a young pregnant woman,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 August 1974
CityVicenza, Italy
CountryUnited States of America
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.
In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.
I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.
You know, Ashley doesn't have a whole lot going on in her life, so she'd probably been romanticizing Madeleine for weeks, when she found out she was coming. So when she shows up and exceeds Ashley's expectations in beauty, sophistication and intelligence, she can do no wrong.
Oh, we're going to have a great time.
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're on the road.
It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,
It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here 61/2 years, so it feels foreign. But then again, if it helps bring attention to the film, I think it's a special little film and I want people to get to know it.
It's a tough category to predict. I certainly don't expect to win. I don't typically prepare speeches. Maybe I'll do a little internal list of people I want to thank.