Quotes: Amy Adams

"I was too consumed with the ins and outs of my career as opposed to enjoying the work. Doing Junebug helped me really get back to enjoying the work and realizing that I do want to be an actress, and if that means nobody ever sees anything I do, that’s got to be okay. If that means I teach during the day and do a play at night, that’s got to be okay. I had to stop defining success by how society defines success."

"I still get completely weirded out working with these people I saw in movies growing up. I’m like, ‘I need to be so professional.’ I turn into a bit of a try-hard, you know."

(on roles she's attracted to) "There’s something about the destruction of innocence that I find fascinating."

"I find that recently I've been playing characters who have questions of faith. It's been interesting to examine why that keeps popping up. And not just faith in God--faith in themselves, faith in somebody else."

"While Charlie Wilson's War and Enchanted are obviously very different, they're both about people who have an ultimate belief that things are going to turn out great. And I think that is something we need in the world today--it's something we're lacking. We live in a world where cynicism is confused with intelligence."

~Amy Adams