J.R. Stewart Quotes

Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.

I grew up in a happy household.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother's clothes, dude!

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

Literally, these [heels] slow you down.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

I went to public school up until junior high.

What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

I've realized how little sleep I actually need.

I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on!

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .

It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way."

I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love.

The only thing we have is each other.