Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she landed the role of Brenda Strong in 2002′s Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Amy Adams Personal Quotes:

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can’t do anything to intimidate me.

I think that I’ve always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there’s a lot of room for discovery in these characters and that’s something I always have fun playing.

It’s nerve-wracking! I’ll be up there, singing the song in front of billions of people – oh, and Daniel Day-Lewis! And Cate Blanchett. I’ll be going to Taco Bell when the ceremony is over. Mexican food cures me (On singing at the Oscars).

Not at this point. Right now I’m just doing what I enjoy and I’ve done some different films, I’ve done some different types of roles. (On being stereotyped as the ‘naive’ one.)

Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do “the Gap act” on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn’t know who she was, and I said, ‘Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors’. She looked at me like I was crazy (On working at The Gap).

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man. It’s like, if I could go back and do it again, I would have taken guitar lessons or something. I would have put my energy into something that paid off in the end, instead of trying to improve myself for men. Oh, the time and the energy, trying to impress somebody who was actually a big jerk, you know? But the truth is, once you have a great man in your life, it allows you – or at least for me – to look at yourself and grow as an individual. And gosh, if I had known I was going to find this, my 20s would have been completely different.