It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too. Emma Stone More Quotes by Emma Stone More Quotes From Emma Stone 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 careers night thinking 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 hair men 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 preparation real school 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 irreverent helping watches The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest. Emma Stone most-heartbreaking heartbreaking sometimes 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 rights school You always are changed when you come back from summer camp. Emma Stone summer-camp changed summer By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting. Emma Stone emotion different interesting Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it. Emma Stone creative hurt fun 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. Emma Stone feel-good sleep night 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 new-shoes mom school I'm shockingly terrible at action movies. Emma Stone action-movie terrible action To go and accomplish a dream at 15, it doesn't feel like you have all that much to lose because you're in high school. You're being home schooled. You get to kind of go for it in a different way. Your parents are still in charge. Emma Stone dream home school I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town". Emma Stone eight new-york beautiful If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion. Emma Stone overwhelmed emotion feels I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. Emma Stone grammar bees kids I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in. Emma Stone lucky periods matter Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably [true] in general. You want to keep your skin thin. Emma Stone eye talking thinking 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 You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life. Emma Stone anything-in-life situation knows
