Skip to content

After working with him, he became a real hero of mine because he was so kind to me – I was a 14-year-old kid and knew nothing.

— Jennifer Connelly

Another quote →

Topics

Heroes

More quotes by Jennifer Connelly

The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness.

It wasn’t until my late twenties that I realised acting could be a creative experience.

You have to do it. You can't keep thinking about it, you just sort of surrender to it, especially when you get the opportunity to work with great actors.

Lots of other people have won Oscars, too, and there are a lot of talented women my age working who could play the roles I go after just as well.

I don't really have a vested interest in what they do career-wise, so long as it's neither destructive to their bodies nor illegal. And hopefully not destructive to other people's bodies either.

All Jennifer Connelly quotes →

You may also like

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Will Rogers

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.

Jean Paul Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.

Julius Evola Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)

Heroism is a myth you tell idealistic young people—specifically when you want them to go bleed for you.

Brandon Sanderson Rhythm of War (2020)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Jennifer Connelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.