Elisha Cuthbert Quotes

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I Feel like I'm one of the Simpsons

I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.