The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to. Emma Stone More Quotes by Emma Stone More Quotes From Emma Stone Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, "Nope, I'm not telling you what's wrong. I'm fine." Emma Stone arms girlfriend people 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 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 I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected. Emma Stone feelings trying memories 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 have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin. Emma Stone thick-skin skins creative One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice because you've learned so much from the last project. I guess that's like in life. You keep moving through, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes and just get better and better all the time. Emma Stone decision mistake moving I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way. Emma Stone eyeliner way past 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. Emma Stone garden new-york writing 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 musician nice art It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out. Emma Stone balance insane together 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 musician names song It's nice to find creative outlets on a daily basis. Emma Stone outlets nice creative I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful! Emma Stone grilled-cheese feels beautiful 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 skinny too-short self-esteem I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in. Emma Stone beneficial felt There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now. Emma Stone right-now waiting happens 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. Emma Stone insane trying water 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 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 motivational beautiful inspirational