Kristen Stewart Quotes

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

You can say something that can really help and actor and you can say something that can really get in the way of an actor's performance, kind of cut them off from their instincts and really get into their heads. And every actor's different. Every actor requires something different. Being an actor, for me, was the greatest training to be a writer and director.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

I never really think much about the size of a production because I think as an actor, once you're in it, it's all the same. I never ever pick projects based on their size.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.