Kristen Stewart Quotes

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

I have fun doing lighter roles, as I don't have to do anything against my emotions.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.