Emma Stone Quotes

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

My public image is none of my business.

I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.