Emma Stone
I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.
There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'
Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.
Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.Collection: Steps
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.Collection: Inspiration
It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.Collection: Matter
My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.Collection: Hope
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.Collection: Mom
I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.Collection: Thinking
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.Collection: Death
This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.Collection: Heart
My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady.Collection: Inspiring
Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.Collection: Sleep
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.Collection: Inspirational
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.Collection: Past
I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.Collection: Moving
I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.Collection: Thinking
Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.Collection: Together
I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.Collection: Saying Never
My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.Collection: Goal
That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.Collection: Interesting
You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.Collection: Creative
I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity over a role in which they have to look like a moron. They're worried they'll damage their sex appeal. Thankfully, I have no problem looking like a moron!Collection: Sex
There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now.Collection: Waiting
I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.Collection: Ideas
You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.Collection: Situation
Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.Collection: Perfect
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award.Collection: Regret
Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.Collection: Drama
I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!Collection: Beautiful
There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.Collection: Song
I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain wayCollection: Important
I don't believe that everyone else really cares what I do all the time. I think in general you have to follow your own path and your own heart and not worry about what everybody else wants you to do. They should be worried about what they're going to do.Collection: Believe
I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, 'This is love.' I just wanted to make people feel like that.Collection: Dad
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.Collection: Inspirational
I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.Collection: Dream
I find the worst audition is the no audition.Collection: Auditions
If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.Collection: Character
A lot of times I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in Easy A, or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.Collection: Character
I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'Collection: Adventure
As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.Collection: Heart
I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.Collection: Stuff
I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.Collection: Water
I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.Collection: New York
My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.Collection: Favorites Things
In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.Collection: Men