Kristen Stewart Quotes

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

When I'm doing the Justice League stuff, my point of view is always coming through Buddy. And he's a dad, and there's stuff about his life that I relate to with my life, and I can also take the abilities of animals, which a lot of people don't know about me.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You have to like the characters you play.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.