Kristen Stewart Quotes

As an actress, you get to basically be your character.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

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

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

You have to find out how to become the character.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.