Top 101 Scarlett Johansson Quotes To Inspire You

October 25th, 2022

Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, singer, and model. She was listed as the highest-paid female actor in the world for two consecutive years in 2018 & 2019, and was featured on the Forbes Celebrity list numerous times.

She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North (1994) and was later nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in the television drama My Own Love Song (2010).

As a child, Scarlett Johansson made several appearances on television shows, such as Cheers, The Bill Cosby Show, and The Torkelsons. Subsequently, she had roles in films such as My Horse Likes You (1994), Mixed Nuts (1994), North (1994), and Inventing the Abbotts (1997).

Johansson rose to fame with her roles in Ghost World (2001) and Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress. She has since starred in several Hollywood films, including The Island (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), He's Not That Into You (2009), Don Jon (2013), and Her (2013).

We've put together an incredible collection of the best Scarlett Johansson quotes.

Here they are:

Top 101 Scarlett Johansson Quotes To Inspire You

Inspiring Scarlett Johansson Quotes On Love

I’m just a big believer in ‘you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,’ and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships. – Scarlett Johansson


I’ve always been very competitive, and a part of that is pushing your boundaries – taking a risk and being able to live with the loss that comes with taking a risk. – Scarlett Johansson


Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you’re playing some psychotic person, which of course I’m not, some part of you is in that character and it’s hopefully believable. – Scarlett Johansson


I’m an actor for hire. It’s important not to forget that you’re disposable….When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want. – Scarlett Johansson


I have always… expected a lot from myself. – Scarlett Johansson


The truth isn’t all things to all people all of the time. – Scarlett Johansson


I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical. – Scarlett Johansson


I would way rather not have a middle ground. I would way rather fail in someone’s eyes than be that sort of tepid… that’s the worst. – Scarlett Johansson


I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind. – Scarlett Johansson


I don’t judge people for their worst mistakes. – Scarlett Johansson


You have to believe that you can act and that you’re the right person for the job but I think it’s good to not always know how you’re going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out. – Scarlett Johansson


I’m happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. – Scarlett Johansson


I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn’t pay to see or something that didn’t challenge me. – Scarlett Johansson


I don’t think I need too much help. I think my head’s on pretty straight, and I’m pretty realistic about things. I’m very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place. – Scarlett Johansson


It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory. – Scarlett Johansson


Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge. – Scarlett Johansson


Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you. – Scarlett Johansson


Whenever I’m taking time off, all I’m thinking about is working. – Scarlett Johansson


I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care. – Scarlett Johansson


I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. – Scarlett Johansson


I believe that luck is an opportunity for meeting preparation. – Scarlett Johansson


I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don’t know how you do it. I don’t know how anybody’s ever done it. – Scarlett Johansson


I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing. – Scarlett Johansson


It’s important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else – to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. – Scarlett Johansson


I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. – Scarlett Johansson


I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise, you get lazy if you’re not slightly terrified that you’re going to fail all the time. – Scarlett Johansson


Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive. – Scarlett Johansson


As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about… – Scarlett Johansson


I used to have nothing. And then I got this. This job. This family. And I was better because of it. – Scarlett Johansson


I just don’t like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn’t. – Scarlett Johansson


It’s so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does. – Scarlett Johansson


When we live our lives every day, we’re met with opportunities, and most of us don’t even recognize them. – Scarlett Johansson


I’d rather be really good at something or not do it at all. – Scarlett Johansson


You’re married, and suddenly you have your own family. There’s a nice comfort in that. – Scarlett Johansson


If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous. – Scarlett Johansson


I don’t feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a body that’s not my body. – Scarlett Johansson


Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true unit of measure. – Scarlett Johansson


I don’t plan on selling out. I mean, it’s nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. – Scarlett Johansson


Humans consider themselves unique so they’ve rooted their whole theory of existence in their uniqueness. – Scarlett Johansson

Powerful Scarlett Johansson Quotes On Life

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn’t work out. – Scarlett Johansson


It’s important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it’s nice to cuddle with somebody. – Scarlett Johansson


Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix. – Scarlett Johansson


I don’t think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don’t want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That’s the most unsexy thing. – Scarlett Johansson


Obviously filming and working have consistently been a part of my life. I’ve never had a huge break of time when I wasn’t working on something or promoting something. – Scarlett Johansson


I’ve had to fight for everything that I have, It’s such a fickle and political industry. – Scarlett Johansson


I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. – Scarlett Johansson


One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy. – Scarlett Johansson


Chickens scare me. I don't like them. They seem a little floppy or something. – Scarlett Johansson


I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way. – Scarlett Johansson


I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. – Scarlett Johansson


I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play the victim. – Scarlett Johansson


I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin. – Scarlett Johansson


I like this job. I like doing it. It's good to be challenged like that. – Scarlett Johansson


It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. – Scarlett Johansson


I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then. – Scarlett Johansson


Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest-paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry. – Scarlett Johansson


I feel like in 10 or 15 years time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' – Scarlett Johansson


I've stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before. – Scarlett Johansson


Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real. – Scarlett Johansson


I've never been a superhero-comic fan exactly. – Scarlett Johansson


I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. – Scarlett Johansson


I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience. – Scarlett Johansson


I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time. – Scarlett Johansson


Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working. – Scarlett Johansson


I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it. – Scarlett Johansson


I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it. – Scarlett Johansson


These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society. – Scarlett Johansson


There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. – Scarlett Johansson


I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over. – Scarlett Johansson


I don't think it's natural to be a monogamous person. – Scarlett Johansson

Famous Scarlett Johansson Quotes On Success

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me. – Scarlett Johansson


Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying. – Scarlett Johansson


When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it's not like I'm always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous. – Scarlett Johansson


It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know? – Scarlett Johansson


I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that. – Scarlett Johansson


I believe in finding a soul mate. I've always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It'd be too awful. 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. – Scarlett Johansson


I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way! – Scarlett Johansson


I get up early, and go to the coffee shop to play cards for a while. – Scarlett Johansson


If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly. – Scarlett Johansson


I believe in finding a soulmate. – Scarlett Johansson


I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life. – Scarlett Johansson


I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to. – Scarlett Johansson


I've always been very competitive, and a part of that is pushing your boundaries - taking a risk and being able to live with the loss that comes with taking a risk. – Scarlett Johansson


Powerful women often get concerned with the idea that they're going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It's so old-fashioned... It's so uninspired and actually really cowardly. – Scarlett Johansson


I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. – Scarlett Johansson


It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. – Scarlett Johansson


I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it's a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing. – Scarlett Johansson


I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show. – Scarlett Johansson


LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks. – Scarlett Johansson


Sometimes I live in Paris for a couple of months, then I have a job someplace, and then I come back to New York. I guess my base is New York-ish, 'cause my family is here. But my husband's family is all in Paris, so we try to spend a lot of time there, also. Especially now that we have Rose. – Scarlett Johansson


I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive. – Scarlett Johansson


I've always been interested in local politics. I never rule anything out, but I have a very full life right now, with a very young daughter. I have a lot that I want to do still with my career... I can't imagine that would be a possibility for a long time. – Scarlett Johansson


You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out. – Scarlett Johansson


As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage. – Scarlett Johansson


I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that's meant different things. – Scarlett Johansson


When I decide I want to have children with somebody, I think it would be nice to be married to that person. – Scarlett Johansson


I have always... expected a lot from myself. – Scarlett Johansson


I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine. – Scarlett Johansson


I think most of the impact I have over time most people will not actually know about. – Scarlett Johansson


I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see or something that didn't challenge me. – Scarlett Johansson

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