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" I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.' "
Emma Stone
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" At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.' "
Emma Stone
Hell
Thinking
Cool
" I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do. "
Emma Stone
Think
Blessed
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" My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings. "
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Great
Movies
Endings
" I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in. "
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Outside
Never
Where
" There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school. "
Emma Stone
School
Learning
High School
" 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. "
Emma Stone
Sports
Know
Brave
" I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with. "
Emma Stone
You
Friend
Choose
" I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. "
Emma Stone
Comedy
Acting
Youth
" 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 mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety. "
Emma Stone
Leave
Child
Therapy
" I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people. "
Emma Stone
Same
Ideas
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" Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. "
Emma Stone
You
Love
Drama
" I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud. "
Emma Stone
Defense
Always
Age
" Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food. "
Emma Stone
People
Growing Up
Care
" I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, 'I love spray-tanning so much.' I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point. "
Emma Stone
Love
Time
Me
" So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!' "
Emma Stone
Hair
Day
Man
" I'm not one of those shoppers where I go to a store and I'm like, trying it on, I'm not sure, 'Oh, can you put this on hold?' No. It's either love it or hate it. And it's the same way with scripts. I usually know within the first 10 pages. If I don't latch into it by then, then it's not going to happen. "
Emma Stone
Hate
Know
Way
" I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do. "
Emma Stone
Kind
Rage
Me
" 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. "
Emma Stone
Never
Success
Me
" My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design. "
Emma Stone
Design
Time
Know
" I'm shockingly terrible at action movies. "
Emma Stone
Action Movies
Terrible
Movies
" I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. "
Emma Stone
Story
Knowledge
King
" I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time. "
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Stupid
Crazy
Time
" So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before. "
Emma Stone
Work
Myself
Acting
" I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. "
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Really
Spelling
Grammar
" The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way. "
Emma Stone
My Life
Know
Life
" Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter. "
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Crying
Me
Much
" You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't. "
Emma Stone
Hear
Body
You
" He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin. "
Emma Stone
Talk
Movies
Imagine
" I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. "
Emma Stone
Funny
Live
Night
" My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles. "
Emma Stone
Funny
Plan
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