Kristen Stewart Quotes

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

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• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Record
  • Regime

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • Punk

• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

  

  Carole King
  • Difficult
  • Stuff
  • Evaluate

• Most parents don’t know really their children.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Parents

• I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Age
  • Fall

• Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Exciting

• Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Trying
  • Dance
  • Balance

• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Great
  • Music
  • Men

• We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

  

  Josh Bowman
  • Fight
  • Actors
  • Fetch

• Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

  

  Michael Anti
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Humans

• I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Men
  • Years

• You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Actors
  • Pretending