Kristen Stewart Quotes

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've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I am an actor through and through.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Acting is a very strange job.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to myself.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

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

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.