Top 90 Emma Stone Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.”

— Emma Stone

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

— Emma Stone

3. “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”

— Emma Stone

4. “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.”

— Emma Stone

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

— Emma Stone

6. “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.”

— Emma Stone

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

— Emma Stone

8. “I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I’m hard-core about grammar.”

— Emma Stone

9. “Anyone who’s making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who’s brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.”

— Emma Stone

10. “My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.”

— Emma Stone

11. “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.”

— Emma Stone

12. “This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other’s backs, especially when we don’t know the whole story.”

— Emma Stone

13. “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.”

— Emma Stone

14. “I’m not very computer savvy.”

— Emma Stone

15. “The idea that you can’t be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.”

— Emma Stone

16. “My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”

— Emma Stone

17. “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

18. “Just because I don’t have a college degree doesn’t mean I am not smart!”

— Emma Stone

19. “I’m into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!”

— Emma Stone

20. “Sometimes you’re not like the person you’d want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you’ve gotta find people who balance you out.”

— Emma Stone

21. “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

22. “I have a checkered past. I’ll take any eyeliner that comes my way.”

— Emma Stone

23. “I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.”

— Emma Stone

24. “The only time I flip out is when I’m not prepared. If I’m caught off guard, I can’t help it; I start gasping for air.”

— Emma Stone

25. “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.”

— Emma Stone

26. “As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.”

— Emma Stone

27. “If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.”

— Emma Stone

28. “Not to be confused with Spider-Man’s other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn’t love him like I do.”

— Emma Stone

29. “I’m just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it’s insane. The only thing I know is that I don’t know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that’s within me, whatever that is, so I’m just trying to trust that.”

— Emma Stone

30. “I don’t believe that everyone else really cares what I do all the time. I think in general you have to follow your own path and your own heart and not worry about what everybody else wants you to do. They should be worried about what they’re going to do.”

— Emma Stone

31. “When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place – they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it’s not.”

— Emma Stone

32. “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. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.”

— Emma Stone

33. “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!”

— Emma Stone

34. “I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don’t want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I’m not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don’t want it to effect what I’m doing.”

— Emma Stone

35. “I always thought it’s way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way.”

— Emma Stone

36. “I’m not there to be the token sexy girl. I don’t know that I would ever be able to pull that off. It’s nice that those characters I’ve played feel uncomfortable as well because it’s so much more realistic.”

— Emma Stone

37. “Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, “Nope, I’m not telling you what’s wrong. I’m fine.””

— Emma Stone

38. “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

39. “I’ve got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I’ve been really lucky in that sense.”

— Emma Stone

40. “There’s this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time – I watched an interview with him in Cannes – and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.”

— Emma Stone

41. “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

42. “My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.”

— Emma Stone

43. “I’m just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I’m just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.”

— Emma Stone

44. “Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.”

— Emma Stone

45. “Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there’s always different kind of element to chemistry.”

— Emma Stone

46. “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

47. “You won’t hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t.”

— Emma Stone

48. “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

49. “I won’t make a bucket list because I’m so afraid that I’ll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, ‘Oh, she didn’t get to do that.’”

— Emma Stone

50. “When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn’t been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I’m discovering.”

— Emma Stone