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" You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't. "
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
" It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing. "
Emma Stone
You
School
Preparation
" 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. "
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Hate
Know
Way
" 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. "
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Funny
Plan
Parents
" 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 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
Good-Looking
Kid
Like
" 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! "
Emma Stone
Women
Thinking
Crazy
" Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart! "
Emma Stone
I Am
Smart
Mean
" When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that. "
Emma Stone
Back
Myself
Moment
" The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me. "
Emma Stone
World
Die
Parents
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel. "
Emma Stone
Flower
City
End
" I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. "
Emma Stone
Comedy
Acting
Youth
" When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. "
Emma Stone
Hollywood
Room
Presentation
" I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that. "
Emma Stone
Before
Left
Person
" I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in. "
Emma Stone
Outside
Never
Where
" Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted. "
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Way
Funny
Kind
" I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way. "
Emma Stone
Great
Stone
Say
" 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
Me
" 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
" 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 just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it. "
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Live
Angel
Mean
" If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion. "
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Emotion
Anything
Feel
" I'm shockingly terrible at action movies. "
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Action Movies
Terrible
Movies
" My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it. "
Emma Stone
Me
Life
Just