Stella Maeve Quotes

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She still looks 12.' I'm like, 'I'm 22. What do you mean I don't look 16?' So I'm comfortable just rocking my young body.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

Usually, I play people who are a lot younger than I am, because people think that I look really young, which I do.

It's only an advantage as an actor - looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.

My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.

I do have quite a baby face.

With my face, everybody always thinks I'm so young, this little guy.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

People feel I look younger than my age. I don't feel that way.

I'm at a weird spot because I look so young and I feel young, but I'm not young.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.