When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16. Hailee Steinfeld More Quotes by Hailee Steinfeld More Quotes From Hailee Steinfeld I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it. Hailee Steinfeld gongs film trying I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that. Hailee Steinfeld empowering generations feels I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I look back on them all the time and constantly feel like I owe it to the other projects that I've made that have gotten me to where I am. Hailee Steinfeld I love it when someone that inspires me is not only good because of what they inspire me for, but also because they're just an amazing person. Hailee Steinfeld inspire I think having not only personal connections with friends and family I'm able to pull from, but having a connection with so many people through social media, it also feels like I have a relationship with those people that follow me. And feel that what I'm going through, they've gone through something similar, and that's why we've connected. And they're the ones that make it into that body of work that represents them or that time in their life, because we've found each other. Hailee Steinfeld media people thinking The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there. Hailee Steinfeld real sleep character I've definitely had some tough schoots. I'd say everything that I've done has had some sort of challenge that I've had to overcome. But it's the most satisfying feeling once you have and that's what I love about acting, sort of signing on to it knowing that it's going to be challenging. Hailee Steinfeld acting challenges feelings Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time. Hailee Steinfeld acting ideas thinking The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right. Hailee Steinfeld girl revenge years I guess it's one thing to play a character and relate to a character, and it's a lot closer to me than people might think. They are obviously watching a person with another name. But when they are listening to my music, it's way more me and my story and my words . . . that is the main difference in that. Hailee Steinfeld character people thinking Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year. Hailee Steinfeld cousin eight mom I do have an incredible relationship with my parents, and my mom, who I go to for absolutely everything, thank the lord. If I didn't, I don't know what I would do. But I guess, I think we all have those moments where we feel like we're so alone and have no one to go to. Hailee Steinfeld parent mom thinking The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl! Hailee Steinfeld girl gun years My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages. Hailee Steinfeld tape nerves thinking I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs. Hailee Steinfeld couple writing song To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again. Hailee Steinfeld academy-awards hard-work honor My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those. Hailee Steinfeld soda-pop girl jobs I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all. Hailee Steinfeld crazy winning thinking Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures. Hailee Steinfeld shopping adventure children I do think that the pressure that Emily Dickinson is under to feel or act or do certain things, I think that women still feel that today. Hailee Steinfeld company-news
