Kristen Stewart Quotes

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.