Emma Stone
Emma Stone
Emily Jean "Emma" Stoneis an American actress. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Stone was drawn to acting as a child, and had her first role in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother, and made her television debut in VH1's In Search of the New Partridge Family, a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After a series of small television roles, she won...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 November 1988
CityScottsdale, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.
I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.
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.
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.
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.
My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.
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.
Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.
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.
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.
I've been looking at that in myself lately. 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.
I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.