"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"
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The intent is disarming and strategic. She uses "literally" and the hyper-specific "two guys" to sound almost shocked by her own statistic, then leans into comedic exaggeration ("spell it out in a Sharpie") to keep the vulnerability from curdling into self-pity. That joke is doing real work: it signals, "I know how this sounds", while still insisting on the lived frustration.
The subtext is about how fame scrambles everyday gender scripts. Men are encouraged to be initiators, but celebrities are treated as untouchable, surveilled, or already claimed by an invisible entourage. The result is a paradox: she can be hyper-visible and still socially unreachable. Her description of having to "spend time with them" and "start the conversation" hints at the extra labor required when the usual signals (smiling, flirting, existing in public) are swallowed by the noise of persona, gossip, and intimidation.
Contextually, it also taps into an early-2000s celebrity ecosystem where actresses were expected to be effortlessly desired but not too agentic. Hewitt admits agency anyway, then wraps it in humor so it reads as relatable rather than threatening.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hewitt, Jennifer Love. (2026, January 16). I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-literally-in-my-entire-life-ive-had-two-guys-113124/
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Hewitt, Jennifer Love. "I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?" FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-literally-in-my-entire-life-ive-had-two-guys-113124/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?" FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-literally-in-my-entire-life-ive-had-two-guys-113124/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
