199 Quotes by Emma Stone

On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!

I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.

You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

If you knew everyone’s story, you would love them. You can’t really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you’d get it.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn’t last forever.

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not.

I know that when you’re a teenager – sometimes when you’re an adult – what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. A lot of the time, it’s what makes you great.

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It’s the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

We’re always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We’re shaming each other, and we’re shaming ourselves, and it sucks.