Latest Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes from Interviews

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• I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you. And I could not believe the backlash. I could not believe that people twisted and turned that story - and accused me of having body image issues or an eating disorder. And then someone explained to me that most people on the planet probably don't know what Weight Watchers is, that it's really just about good eating habits.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Believe, People, Healthy

• One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination. One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. She's like, "There's a man who is outside your house, Ginny, and you need to be logging onto this website to see if you can find a pattern in when he follows you." But otherwise, I can't find any good reason to read my own press.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Men, House

• I was afraid that my success would be dependent partially upon my body, and it's true I can't be 20 pounds heavier and play the leading lady. But I'm on the smaller end of an average-sized woman. I'm positive of this, mathematically. And I still get to play the lead, without having to be anorexic like so many of my peers.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

• I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Regret, Needs, Actors

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

• I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Wise, Smoking, Drug

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Problem

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katic Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Animal

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Google, Should

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Men, Want

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mean, Thinking, Dieting

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Combination, One Time

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Healthy, Promise, Example

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

• No matter how much love is there, these aren't two people who are actually good for each other. They don't help each other grow. They stifle each other's growth.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Love Is, Two, People

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

• It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Character, Challenges, Arcs

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.