Kristen Stewart Quotes

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

I am not an icon.

So many want me to do another 'Paruthiveeran'; others are fans of my 'Siruthai' avatar. Extreme expectations, but I have to strike a balance.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

I understand that I'm a role model.

I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.

I lead a unique existence as someone who is famous for being young on film, or young in the minds of everyone.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

I don't consider myself an icon.

Action is not really my genre, but it's what people expect out of me. And it works, too.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.