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" I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia. "
Ellen Page
Tomboy
Nova
Nova Scotia
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" Fashion once meant dresses and heels, and I didn't know why I'd want to be dressed that way. Now I'm like, 'Oh my God, those Saint Laurent boots!' Those are not words I thought I'd ever say. A beautiful suit is nice. I get fashion now. In fact, I love it. "
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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 don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it. "
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" I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on. "
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" I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies. "
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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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" The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind. "
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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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Which
Subscribe
" Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right? "
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" As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin? "
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Love
" People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard. "
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Ask
People
" I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women. "
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Just
" I actually can't watch blood and gore and all those things. I watch Netflix shows with my hand over my face, like, peeking out. Which is funny, because I'm on sets all the time, and I know how those effects are done. "
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Face
Watch
Know
" 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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Think
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You
" For me, being out within my life became far more important than being in any movie. "
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Me
Life
Important
" I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. "
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Love
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Me
" I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. "
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1970s
Teenager
" I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. "
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Working
Canada
Budget
" 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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Street
Famous
Know
" I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. "
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Watching
Trouble
Sometimes
" I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. "
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How
Men
" And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. "
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Point
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People
" X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way. "
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" I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts. "
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" I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y. "
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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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" I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. "
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" I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense. "
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Eat
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" I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it. "
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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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Canada