Amy Adams is receiving major Oscar buzz for her roles this year in the films “Trouble with the Curve” and “The Master,” but she still sees herself as a poor girl from Colorado.
She told The Guardian newspaper, “I still think I’m like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That’s still my mentality, so I’ll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am. Someone will come up to me and say hi, and I’m thinking, ‘I must know you,’ and I realize that, no, I don’t know them and they don’t know me. At all!”
As a child, Adams’ father was in the military, and she credits that upbringing with how she’s able to handle things. “It definitely makes you a little bit more transient, which can turn out to be a good quality in life, and in fact has helped me in what I do… What it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.”
