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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Amber Laura Heard is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010) and Drive Angry (2011). She has also had supporting roles in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Never Back Down (2008), The Joneses (2009), Machete Kills (2013), Magic Mike XXL (2015), and The Danish Girl (2015). Heard is part of the DC Extended Universe franchise, playing Mera in Justice League (2018), Aquaman (2018), and the forthcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). She has also acted in television series such as Hidden Palms (2007) and The Stand (2020).
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.
I have a fiercely independent spirit.
I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.
You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.
I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.
I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!
Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
Injustice can never be stood for.
I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.
I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
I watch what I eat and drink.
I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.
I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!
I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.
Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.
When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.
I've got a soft spot for true individuals.
I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Modern cars I don't like so much.
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.
I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
It is really hard when you spend your life living out of a suitcase. But it really does weed out superficial people - if someone is still with you after the second movie, then they're probably a good one! I like to trust people in general - it's the southern girl in me.
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
All I've ever needed is myself.
If you want to do something, you find a way.
One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.
I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.
I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.
I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.
You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.
I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.