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.”

“Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.”

“Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.”

“I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.”

“I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.”

“I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.”

“I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.”

“I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.”

“There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.”

“Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.”

“I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.”

“It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.”

“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.”

“I grew up in a happy household.”

“I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.”

“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.”

“I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.”

“But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.”

“Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.”

“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.”