Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone

6 November 1988

An American actress. Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School and then Cocopah Middle School for the sixth grade. She was homeschooled for two years, during which time she appeared in sixteen productions at Valley Youth Theatre, including "The Princess and the Pea", "Alice in Wonderland", and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", and performed with the theater's improv comedy troupe. Her parents also sent her for private lessons with a local acting coach who had worked at the William Morris Agency in the 1970s and still had Hollywood connections.

Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl Catholic high school, as a freshman for one semester. She gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song "Hollywood", to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. In January 2004, at the age of fifteen, she moved with her mother to an apartment in Los Angeles and began homeschooling again.

She made her feature film debut in "Superbad" (2007). She has co-starred in "The House Bunny" (2008), "Zombieland" (2009), and Kieran and Michelle Mulroney's "Paper Man" (2009). In 2010, Stone made her leading debut in "Easy A", for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Afterwards, Stone co-starred in notable films including "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011), Tate Taylor's "The Help" (2011) as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, "The Amazing Spider-Man" film series (2012, 2014) as Gwen Stacy, and the animated film "The Croods (2013), where she voiced Eep.

As actress

• Superbad (2007)
• The Rocker (2008)
• The House Bunny (2008)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
• Paper Man (2009)
• Zombieland (2009)
• Marmaduke (2010)
• Easy A (2010)
• Friends with Benefits (2011)
• Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
• The Help (2011)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
• Gangster Squad (2013)
• Movie 43 (2013)
• The Croods (2013)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
• Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
• Birdman (2014)
• Aloha (2015)
• Irrational Man (2015)
• La La Land (2016)
• Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Quotations

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

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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

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I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

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I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

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When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.

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Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

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

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I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

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I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

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I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

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There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

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I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

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I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

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I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

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I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

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You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

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

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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!'

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Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

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I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

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I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

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He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

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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.

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I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.

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I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

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The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

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When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

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Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

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I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

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I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

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Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.

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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. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

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At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'

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In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

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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.

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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.

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The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

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I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.

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I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

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