120 Quotes by Emmy Rossum

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn’t the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

Stop trying to make everyone happy. You’re not tequila.

She’s lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I have a dog as well, and I’m not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it’s not boding well.

I’ve learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I’ve never taken a job for the money.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, “What do you want for your birthday?” I’d be like, “I want an older brother.”

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I’ve had from when I was little.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Because that’s something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

I hope that I’m sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.