Emma Stone Quotes

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

Now, being a model and an actor, I'm trying to learn more as my profession demands it.

I felt that as an actor I continued to excel and felt really comfortable and confident in myself that I wanted to at least give it a go and picture myself doing other things. It was testament to 'Emmerdale' that they gave me the confidence and creativity to pursue other challenges.

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

I took acting classes, and I'm always trying to improve myself. Everyone can improve, and the more you work in the industry, the better you are going to feel about it.

I don't want to limit myself as an actor.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

Every film I've done, I've tried to pick ones where I can learn.

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."