Personal Quotes
On working on the film Panic Room (2002) with such a big name stella, star as Jodie Foster: "When I got "Panic Room", I'm like, 'Oh my God that's huge! It's bigger than huge'. I was kind of freaked out at first".
(about her Amore for acting) I Amore it because I Amore to tell stories. I like being in Film that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, te know. When te wake up at six in the morning every giorno for a week, it feels like hard work.
I don't want to make Film for kids, and I don't want to make Film for adults either.
recitazione is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. When te reach that point where te can't go anymore and te stop and te take a breath, it's that same sort of clearing of the mind.
A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives o something.
All I try to do in the press is be honest about something that I really care about.
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.
I start everything from the same place, with that sense of responsibility. On a bigger movie, te have to be aware that te can only control your aspect of the film. It's nice to be on a smaller movie because you're working with your Friends and te feel so close-knit. It's your movie and te can do anything te want, and nobody's going to have anything to say. With a bigger movie, it concerns so many people. It's so much più of a process. But, in terms of what I do personally, it has to be the same, o else I'm just on some big movie, being a liar, and I can't do that.
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If te hang around long enough, te can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
About having an aha moment when it came to pursuing an recitazione career: I have the "Aha" moments progressively -- they're like milestones and they hit you. I think my first "Aha!" moment was when I did this (TV) movie called "Speak." I was just rolling with it, and ended up kind of really losing myself in it, so that I felt like I was a different person at the end. That was a big moment.
te should have the opportunity to be più than one person with different people - because te have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows te so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think te are. te should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because te do. Naturally.
On whether she wants to develop her skills as a writer: I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Scrivere is something that te can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. I mean, I definitely will always do what I've been doing. I've also started taking a lot of pictures, and they help the writing. The pictures help the writing. I mean, I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
About Bella in New Moon: Well, she loses what basically gives her the drive to do anything in her whole life. She loses the man she's in Amore with, but she also loses her entire life plan, and she's so young to have to be forced into a decision like that. It's just a glorified, elaborate version of the worst breakup you've ever been through. All of a sudden te domanda everything. All of a sudden te know nothing and you're dropped in the middle of a freezing cold ocean. Oddly, we have a character that's warm enough and bright enough to bring her out of that, and it's truly gut-ripping. Because as perfect as Jacob is for her, she holds on to an ideal, the ultimate fiery Amore that she has for Edward even though it's not comfortable, it's not practical and it's not a good idea.
This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering te all kinds of things, and they just expect te to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity o anything like that. It's about raising your profilo and all that crap.
I was just in Botswana in Africa. I wanted to learn something about the world. I just feel really ignorant whenever I leave the country. I don't know a lot of stuff, and I really want to. I figure that traveling is a good way to start if te want knowledge. Like, if te don't know something about a country, then go and check it out. That's what I did.
On how her life has changed since Twilight: My life hasn't changed. Most circumstances I find myself in are different than they were a anno ago, but I myself haven't changed...however a normal 18-year-old girl would change in a year. But it makes things so much easier. I would do it for free every giorno [even] if nobody saw it. I cannot describe how good it feels to actually have something that is truly into your cuore and soul actually affecting people. And that's amazing. So that's the biggest change.
On whether she wants to continue making Film o go to college: I absolutely have no foresight. I used to think I had a lot when I was younger. I worked really hard in school to give myself options, and I've literally taken those options and thrown them down the toilet. Purposely - not to make that sound totally negative. It's what I want. I want to keep doing what I'm doing. It's funny, people ask me all the time: 'What do te do for fun? What do te do when you're not acting?' It's a strange thing, acting. It's a business, it's a job, everything like that. All it is, is self-reflection. te just never stop caring about people and I've never stopped doing that, so I'm sure it'll seep into other areas of my life. I want to write. I'm not going to school because I can't take the structure of it, but I'm not going to stop learning.
Usually I come in and sit down at roundtables in America and they look at me like 'what is wrong with you?' Just because I don't fit...nobody fits into the frame that typical Hollywood young attrici do, but they try to. They try to be this thing. Try to memorize risposte and make everybody happy. That's so horrifying and scary to me. So when you're not that, te get criticized for it. te get criticized for being honest and criticized for being nervous. So that's kind of annoying. I do a whole giorno of press and then I get calls from publicity people that are like, 'you might want to be a little bit più bubbly'. And I'm like, 'no'. People get very upset in the States. It's weird. fan of the book especially. They don't understand me. Which is fine. I guess it doesn't really matter who I am, it just matters that they like the movie.
On doing interviews: Self-evaluation is not my strong point, and you're constantly asked to critique yourself. te just spent three months on a set and your whole life is wrapped up in that - and then it's like, "Okay, define that right now in five seconds." I can't do that. I used to get so nervous that I would become a completely different person - and then they would think that was me. So I've tried to calm down, but no one's ever going to write, "Oh, she's actually just a pretty f---in' average chick who really loves what she does." That's not gonna happen.
On how fame changed her life: There's nothing te can do about it, to be honest. I don't leave my hotel room -- literally, I don't. I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what te own and keep it to yourself. That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn't go out at all. I'm trading. It depends on what mood I'm in. Some nights, I think, 'You know what? I don't care. I'm going to do what I want to do.' Then the successivo giorno I think, 'Ugh. Now everyone thinks I'm going out to get the attention.' and I'm like, 'No, actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.'
Speech after winning an arancia, arancio Bafta (2010): Wow. Thank you. I guess first I have to thank all the fan of Twilight for proving again and again to be THE most devoted and attentive fan ever. Considering this is voted, credit is due to them so thank you. To the other actors nominated, I am so blown away da te that I can't even describe it. To be voted among te is just overwhelming. And I'd like to say hi to my family.
On working on the film Panic Room (2002) with such a big name stella, star as Jodie Foster: "When I got "Panic Room", I'm like, 'Oh my God that's huge! It's bigger than huge'. I was kind of freaked out at first".
(about her Amore for acting) I Amore it because I Amore to tell stories. I like being in Film that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, te know. When te wake up at six in the morning every giorno for a week, it feels like hard work.
I don't want to make Film for kids, and I don't want to make Film for adults either.
recitazione is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. When te reach that point where te can't go anymore and te stop and te take a breath, it's that same sort of clearing of the mind.
A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives o something.
All I try to do in the press is be honest about something that I really care about.
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.
I start everything from the same place, with that sense of responsibility. On a bigger movie, te have to be aware that te can only control your aspect of the film. It's nice to be on a smaller movie because you're working with your Friends and te feel so close-knit. It's your movie and te can do anything te want, and nobody's going to have anything to say. With a bigger movie, it concerns so many people. It's so much più of a process. But, in terms of what I do personally, it has to be the same, o else I'm just on some big movie, being a liar, and I can't do that.
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If te hang around long enough, te can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
About having an aha moment when it came to pursuing an recitazione career: I have the "Aha" moments progressively -- they're like milestones and they hit you. I think my first "Aha!" moment was when I did this (TV) movie called "Speak." I was just rolling with it, and ended up kind of really losing myself in it, so that I felt like I was a different person at the end. That was a big moment.
te should have the opportunity to be più than one person with different people - because te have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows te so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think te are. te should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because te do. Naturally.
On whether she wants to develop her skills as a writer: I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Scrivere is something that te can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. I mean, I definitely will always do what I've been doing. I've also started taking a lot of pictures, and they help the writing. The pictures help the writing. I mean, I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
About Bella in New Moon: Well, she loses what basically gives her the drive to do anything in her whole life. She loses the man she's in Amore with, but she also loses her entire life plan, and she's so young to have to be forced into a decision like that. It's just a glorified, elaborate version of the worst breakup you've ever been through. All of a sudden te domanda everything. All of a sudden te know nothing and you're dropped in the middle of a freezing cold ocean. Oddly, we have a character that's warm enough and bright enough to bring her out of that, and it's truly gut-ripping. Because as perfect as Jacob is for her, she holds on to an ideal, the ultimate fiery Amore that she has for Edward even though it's not comfortable, it's not practical and it's not a good idea.
This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering te all kinds of things, and they just expect te to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity o anything like that. It's about raising your profilo and all that crap.
I was just in Botswana in Africa. I wanted to learn something about the world. I just feel really ignorant whenever I leave the country. I don't know a lot of stuff, and I really want to. I figure that traveling is a good way to start if te want knowledge. Like, if te don't know something about a country, then go and check it out. That's what I did.
On how her life has changed since Twilight: My life hasn't changed. Most circumstances I find myself in are different than they were a anno ago, but I myself haven't changed...however a normal 18-year-old girl would change in a year. But it makes things so much easier. I would do it for free every giorno [even] if nobody saw it. I cannot describe how good it feels to actually have something that is truly into your cuore and soul actually affecting people. And that's amazing. So that's the biggest change.
On whether she wants to continue making Film o go to college: I absolutely have no foresight. I used to think I had a lot when I was younger. I worked really hard in school to give myself options, and I've literally taken those options and thrown them down the toilet. Purposely - not to make that sound totally negative. It's what I want. I want to keep doing what I'm doing. It's funny, people ask me all the time: 'What do te do for fun? What do te do when you're not acting?' It's a strange thing, acting. It's a business, it's a job, everything like that. All it is, is self-reflection. te just never stop caring about people and I've never stopped doing that, so I'm sure it'll seep into other areas of my life. I want to write. I'm not going to school because I can't take the structure of it, but I'm not going to stop learning.
Usually I come in and sit down at roundtables in America and they look at me like 'what is wrong with you?' Just because I don't fit...nobody fits into the frame that typical Hollywood young attrici do, but they try to. They try to be this thing. Try to memorize risposte and make everybody happy. That's so horrifying and scary to me. So when you're not that, te get criticized for it. te get criticized for being honest and criticized for being nervous. So that's kind of annoying. I do a whole giorno of press and then I get calls from publicity people that are like, 'you might want to be a little bit più bubbly'. And I'm like, 'no'. People get very upset in the States. It's weird. fan of the book especially. They don't understand me. Which is fine. I guess it doesn't really matter who I am, it just matters that they like the movie.
On doing interviews: Self-evaluation is not my strong point, and you're constantly asked to critique yourself. te just spent three months on a set and your whole life is wrapped up in that - and then it's like, "Okay, define that right now in five seconds." I can't do that. I used to get so nervous that I would become a completely different person - and then they would think that was me. So I've tried to calm down, but no one's ever going to write, "Oh, she's actually just a pretty f---in' average chick who really loves what she does." That's not gonna happen.
On how fame changed her life: There's nothing te can do about it, to be honest. I don't leave my hotel room -- literally, I don't. I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what te own and keep it to yourself. That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn't go out at all. I'm trading. It depends on what mood I'm in. Some nights, I think, 'You know what? I don't care. I'm going to do what I want to do.' Then the successivo giorno I think, 'Ugh. Now everyone thinks I'm going out to get the attention.' and I'm like, 'No, actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.'
Speech after winning an arancia, arancio Bafta (2010): Wow. Thank you. I guess first I have to thank all the fan of Twilight for proving again and again to be THE most devoted and attentive fan ever. Considering this is voted, credit is due to them so thank you. To the other actors nominated, I am so blown away da te that I can't even describe it. To be voted among te is just overwhelming. And I'd like to say hi to my family.