A biography for Jordana Brewsterhasn’t been written yet.
“Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.”
“You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.”
“What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.”
“Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.”
“I work out with a trainer five days a week.”
“I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.”
“I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.”
“I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.”
“I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.”
“My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.”
“When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.”
“People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.”