"It is obvious to me that there is an overwhelming amount of women, of actors I look at, and they're too thin for my taste." - Scarlett Johansson, on the pressure in Hollywood for women to stay exceedingly slim
Scarlett has made an error in diction. She has used "amount" in place of "number."
The word "amount" is used to quantify nouns that are uncountable. Since "women" is a countable noun, the correct word to use is "number."
This version of Scarlett's statement corrects the error:
"It is obvious to me that there is an overwhelming number of women, of actors I look at, and they're too thin for my taste."
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