Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart

29 quotes

Few American actresses and directors have been quoted as widely as Kristen Stewart (b. 1990), whose insights reach well beyond their original context. Celebrated for her subtle and naturalistic style of acting, Kristen Stewart brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Our collection holds 36 quotes from Kristen Stewart, each offering a different angle on Movies, Funny, Success, Age, and Home. One standout: "I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Funny

All Quotes by Kristen Stewart

“I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.”

— Kristen Stewart

Funny

“I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.”

— Kristen Stewart

Cool

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Business

“I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.”

— Kristen Stewart

Amazing

“I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'”

— Kristen Stewart

Failure

“I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.”

— Kristen Stewart

Family

“And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.”

— Kristen Stewart

Funny

“Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.”

— Kristen Stewart

Success

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Success

“I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.”

— Kristen Stewart

Failure

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Dating

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Age

“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.”

— Kristen Stewart

Funny

“It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.”

— Kristen Stewart

Movies

“I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.”

— Kristen Stewart

Famous

“I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.”

— Kristen Stewart

Movies

“I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.”

— Kristen Stewart

Funny

“The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'”

— Kristen Stewart

Sad

“Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.”

— Kristen Stewart

Success

“I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.”

— Kristen Stewart

Family