Ellen Page Quotes

• Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can’t imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

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• To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing – that is a gift.

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• There’s no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything’s pretty small.

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• Mind you, Roman Holiday – which is kind of a romantic comedy – is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

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• I’ve always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there’s just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

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• I’m not good at watching stuff that I’m in at all. I should stop. I shouldn’t watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It’s not a good idea.

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• I’m kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

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• I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.

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• I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.

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• I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that’s all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I’m supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

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• But I’ve never been really rebellious. I’ve got a lot of support and I’m not pushed so hard that I feel like I’m going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

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• X-Men is massive, like nothing I’ve ever experienced. But great in its own way.

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• When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

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• There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

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• The relationships I’ve had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don’t know what I’d do.

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• I’ve become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

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• I’m actually just playing honest, whole young women.

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• I’m a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

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• I’m a huge fan of the program ‘Democracy Now,’ which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

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• I’d ice-skated before, because I’m Canadian and that’s what you do as a kid, but I’d never, ever been on quad skates.

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Ellen Page (38)

Birth:	21st February, 1987
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress

About

Ellen Philpotts-Page, known professionally as Ellen Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a Canadian actress. She started her career in Canada with roles in the television shows including Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys, and ReGenesis. She starring in the 2005 drama Hard Candy a role that won her the Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. Her breakthrough role in Jason Reitman's comedy film Juno for which she received nominations for Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. Her other notable film roles have been in the X-Men series portraying Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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