Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johanssonis an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in North. Johansson subsequently starred in Manny & Lo in 1996, and garnered further acclaim and prominence with roles in The Horse Whispererand Ghost World. She shifted to adult roles with her performances in Girl with a Pearl Earringand Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 November 1984
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.
I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.
I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.
Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.
It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?
Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.
There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.
I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.