Emma Stone Quotes

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.

Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised how far out you can go when you are by yourself.

The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.