Quotes by Emma Stone

I always thought its way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, youre thinking, How the hell am I here? All these people Ive never met are here, and its so cool! And then, as time goes on, its a little bit like, Ah... its more like work.

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, Id be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.

Im shockingly terrible at action movies.

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as Ive gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, its easier to say, I like that or I dont like that, but its nothing I would ever, you know, design.

My parents are both very funny but theyre also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while Im just a lunatic. I dont know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. Im just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. Its not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so its kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where theres nothing funny or lighthearted.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my moms side. I dont really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

I had a trainer during Spiderman, and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when Im holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, thats where it comes out. Thats not the kind of working out I want to do.