“You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifferentKnow HowLike YouWho You AreConnectedDo You KnowKnow Me Author:Kristen Stewart
“My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.” PeoplePerfectMy FamilyFaultsUpbringingRail Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensPlayCharacterWould BeTogetherFilmCoursesMy OwnCareersImpossibleJourneyEventsGrewEvolutionInvolvedGrew UpConnectionsParallelsGreat JourneysJourney Together Author:Kristen Stewart
“People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'” PeopleThinkingLooksPersonsDifferentScary Author:Kristen Stewart
“I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'” PeopleNeedsHairDirtyShirtsNastyT ShirtNaughtyFunky Author:Kristen Stewart
“Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksWholeCareSchoolTurnsDon't CareDespiteHeyI Don't CareFollowersPanicHomeworkSlacker Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.” PeopleWayHardAbleCertainMediaFiguresWho You ArePublic Figures Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.” PeopleKnowsGivingLittlesSelfAgeStrongAgingWho I AmInterviewsBirthdayPackagesSense Of Self50th BirthdayStrong Sense Of Self Author:Kristen Stewart
“Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.” PeopleRunningRomanceFoundTermActingCreativeExtremesVersionsConsumptionOutletsExpress YourselfExertionPersonal ThingsCreative Outlets Author:Kristen Stewart
“If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsLongWould BeFacesActorsFeetMovieFiftyTall Author:Kristen Stewart
“This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.” PeopleKindHappensActorsLevelsCareersIntegrityProjectsBe GoodThings HappenAll KindsMovieOfferingWeird Things Author:Kristen Stewart
“What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.” PeopleFacesFallCamerasReactionsBizarreTaunting Author:Kristen Stewart
“You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.” PeopleWayShouldLooksCertainViewsStepsShapes Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.” PeopleThinkingGivingI CanUsedActorsProcessSeeingTelevisionWideInterviewsMovieUnnaturalMovie Sets Author:Kristen Stewart
“Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.” PeopleWayWantCharacterGirlMassConnectionsProfound Author:Kristen Stewart
“You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLittlesSometimesFilmCertainStrongBitsEmotionalIndustryApproachLittle BitCarefulArtisticOddToneCrewFilm Industry Author:Kristen Stewart
“I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensPerfectRoomsProudStandingPhotographActressesEmbarrassedCarpet Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.” PeopleThinkingI CanAgeBitsToo MuchAgingBirthdayShameful50th BirthdayThinking Too Much Author:Kristen Stewart
“I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.” PeopleIfsDatingEntertainment Author:Kristen Stewart
“I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksMadeRealWholeYoungActorsMy OwnDealsActressesLook UpAnnoyingPersona Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.” PeopleWantFunnyAttentionEffectsProudUncomfortableFunny Things Author:Kristen Stewart
“You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.” PeopleFeelsActorsCan DoLike YouBiggerConnectedScalesMovieYou Can Do ItIndie Movie Author:Kristen Stewart
“If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingLooksMatterPerfectRoomsHalfHonestStandingActressesGood TimesWhat MattersCarpetHad A Good Time Author:Kristen Stewart
“A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.” PeopleThinkingImportantActorsSaving Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's really important to like what you're wearing. It's pretty clear when I don't like what I'm wearing, and it's pretty clear if you got dressed for other people. Even if you're not looking the the best you can, or maybe your outfit isn't spot on, if it looks like you got dressed and you like it, you'll probably look cool anyway.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantClearLike YouSpotsYou Like It Author:Kristen Stewart
“You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYoungCertainFallAnswersLove YouPressureFalling In LoveVersionsSubjectiveWhat You Love Author:Kristen Stewart
“I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.” PeopleIfsDifficultWallComfortableFearlessJust BeingDifficult ThingsLosing YourselfUnafraidWalls Up Author:Kristen Stewart
“You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldWellsPersonsDifferentOpportunityLike YouShould HaveStuckWithin YouDifferent PeoplesReinventing YourselfFaking It Author:Kristen Stewart
“What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!” PeopleThinkingWaveKill MeRipUngratefulPaparazziBikinisInconsiderate Author:Kristen Stewart
“Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.” PeopleChangedIrrelevantDon't ChangeTimes Have ChangedPeople Don't Change Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's funny: By putting up walls, you think you're protecting yourself, but you get to live less. You're depriving yourself of so much if you're trying to be too aware of what you're putting out there. If you feel someone breaking those walls down, let them. Those are the people that you need to find in life, rather than people that you're just comfortable with.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsTryingWallComfortableDeprivingDepriving Yourself Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.” PeopleThinkingLittlesWatchesOur LivesStrengthSimplicitySelf RelianceReliance Author:Kristen Stewart
“Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.” PeopleProblemSeemsTodayFoolBeing TrueHatedSincerity Author:Kristen Stewart
“People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.” PeopleHardBitsAcceptingAmountFameHard TimesSunshineDisplayDiscomfortSpotlight Author:Kristen Stewart
