Emma Stone quotes

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,
-- Emma Stone

#People #Stories #Be Kind

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
-- Emma Stone

#Jobs #People #Different

I'm into grilled cheese.  Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!
-- Emma Stone

#Beautiful #Grilled Cheese #Feels

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.
-- Emma Stone

#Growing Up #Book #Men

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
-- Emma Stone

#Honesty #Thinking #Numbers

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.'
-- Emma Stone

#Adventure #People #Sound

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
-- Emma Stone

#Mom #Goal #Parent

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.
-- Emma Stone

#Art #Nice #Musician

Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
-- Emma Stone

#Beautiful #Badass #Thinking

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.
-- Emma Stone

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.
-- Emma Stone

#Thinking #People #Compare

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.
-- Emma Stone

#Mean #Fans #Albums

Blondes do have more fun. But sometimes I look in the mirror and still feel like I'm wearing a wig.
-- Emma Stone

#Fun #Mirrors #Looks

I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.
-- Emma Stone

#Jobs #Trying #Acting

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
-- Emma Stone

#Fun #Makeup #Thinking

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Believe #Heart #Thinking

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.
-- Emma Stone

#Burden #Feels

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.
-- Emma Stone

#Hate #Ideas #I Hate

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Song #Listening #Roles

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Heart #Character #Thinking

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.
-- Emma Stone

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Beauty

For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
-- Emma Stone

#Character #Responsibility #Political

I get a lot of questions about hair color. People are very into talking about hair.
-- Emma Stone

#Hair #Color #Talking

You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!
-- Emma Stone

#Character #Order #Play

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
-- Emma Stone

#Years #Parent #Hollywood

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.
-- Emma Stone

#Death #Forever #Dying

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
-- Emma Stone

#Inspiration #Thinking #Representation

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.
-- Emma Stone

#Clouds #People #Would Be

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
-- Emma Stone

#Parent #World #Want

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Dream #People #Way

I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'
-- Emma Stone

#People #Buckets #Lists

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
-- Emma Stone

#Talking #Interesting #Work Ethic

I'm not there to be the token sexy girl.  I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off.  It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic.
-- Emma Stone

#Girl #Sexy #Nice

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way
-- Emma Stone

#Important #Looks #Way

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Heart #Mind #Supportive

Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.
-- Emma Stone

#Air #Numbers #Waiting

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.
-- Emma Stone

#Real #Silly #Opportunity

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
-- Emma Stone

#Sports #Teamwork #Strong

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
-- Emma Stone

#Steps #Sometimes #Ends

You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.
-- Emma Stone

#Giving Up #Past #Thinking

I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
-- Emma Stone

#Way #Kind #Projects

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Dad #Heart #Animal

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
-- Emma Stone

#Brain #Important #Tasks

Not to be confused with Spider-Man's other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a ***** and doesn't love him like I do.
-- Emma Stone

#Girlfriend #Confused #Men

It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking it’s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, ‘I’m not saving lives; I’m not a brain surgeon.’ And that’s true—I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
-- Emma Stone

#Jobs #Fun #Silly

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'
-- Emma Stone

#Kids #Forever #Looking Good

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Regret #Opportunity #Awards

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Inspirational #Motivational #Beautiful

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
-- Emma Stone

#Smart #Mean #College

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.
-- Emma Stone

#Emotion #Overwhelmed #Feels

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.
-- Emma Stone

#Beneficial

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
-- Emma Stone

#Action #Action Movie #Terrible

I'm not very computer savvy.
-- Emma Stone

#Computer #Savvy

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.
-- Emma Stone

#Soulmate #Believe #Thinking

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
-- Emma Stone

#Kids #Bees #Grammar

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.
-- Emma Stone

#Pay #Bills #Able

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
-- Emma Stone

#Acting #Comedy #Youth

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.
-- Emma Stone

#Laughter #Drama #Cry

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
-- Emma Stone

#Drama #First Love #Play

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.
-- Emma Stone

#Excited #Imagine #My Favorite

I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
-- Emma Stone

#Littles #Stuff #Used

So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
-- Emma Stone

#Dark #Men #Hair

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
-- Emma Stone

#Night #Thinking #Careers

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.
-- Emma Stone

#Favorites Things #My Favorite #Really Great

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.
-- Emma Stone

#Want #Sometimes #Life Is

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.
-- Emma Stone

#Mom #Mother #Emotional

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.
-- Emma Stone

#Mom #Strong #Cancer

I do put on a little make-up every day because it helps me feel put together. Mascara is essential.
-- Emma Stone

#Beauty #Together #Essentials

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.
-- Emma Stone

#School #Men #Class

My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design.
-- Emma Stone

#Mean #Clothes #Design

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.
-- Emma Stone

#Kings #School #Rights

Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.
-- Emma Stone

#Running #Swim #Knees

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.
-- Emma Stone

#Watches #Helping #Irreverent

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.
-- Emma Stone

#Issues #Body #Humans

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.
-- Emma Stone

#Self Esteem #Skinny #Too Short

I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. A lot of the time, it's what makes you great.
-- Emma Stone

#Teenager #Adults #Sometimes

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
-- Emma Stone

#Song #Names #Musician

It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.
-- Emma Stone

#Real #School #Preparation

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.
-- Emma Stone

#Home #School #Might

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.
-- Emma Stone

#Mean #Long #House

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
-- Emma Stone

#Teacher #Crazy #Thinking

I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.
-- Emma Stone

#Work Out #Weight #Want

On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!
-- Emma Stone

#Mom #School #Class