Kristen Stewart Quotes

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

Acting is kind of brutal.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

When you're studying drama, when you're a young actor, there are simple rules about acting. "Why am I here? What prevents me from leaving? What am I trying to get? How do I hide something?" So when you're making a film like Abel's movie, you want to be thinking about those things all the time. And you wanna be armed with those things, and you hope the other actors you're working with have the same understanding of drama and scene and acting. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

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