EMMA STONE

• I sometimes feel like two different people, I always try to be as one, but I feel that everyone once in their life feels with two different personalities, each day I feel different, sometimes I feel happy like a crazy girl, and another day I feel I’m emotional simply the world is not me, but hey treaty be one of them, not saying everyone deve be happy forever, but if you try, sometimes I’m always happy, and sometimes not, but have to deal with that.
• 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.
• You know when you think ‘I can’t do something because this or this or this.’ You can actually do anything you want, like I could ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart, I could but 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!

JENNIFER LAWRENCE

• I’m never going to starve myself for a part …I don’t want little girls to be like, ‘Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I’m going to skip dinner. That’s something I was really conscious of during training, when you’re trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong- not thin and underfed.
• I just kind of opened up and said, ‘I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.’

KAYA SCODELARIO

• Strong female leads need to be made more mainstream. There are some wonderful, wonderful independent films being made with women of all ages. I think that’s what we should try and focus on. There is still an imbalance between insightful, strong roles and stereotypical ones from my personal experiences, but I don’t think it’s a lost cause.
• For girls my age or young women, you’re at a point in your life where you’re trying to work out who you are. You have to choose what your career’s going to be, what direction you’re going to go. And all these things happen so quickly when you’re a teenager. It’s so confusing and it’s so messed up and on top of that, every young person goes through issues with their family, where they feel like an outcast or whatever.
• You have to be confident being on telly as you get Tweets from girls saying, “oh god, you look ugly in real life compared to on screen” or “your hair looks like shit today”. You get used and then you get to a point there you’re like, ‘fuck it, this is who I am’. I worry more about the image we give off to other people, I don’t want people to feel like they have to aspire to look like us.
• Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it’s unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.
• People assume you have to have a lot of money to get into film or you have to have parents who are in the industry already, and I didn’t have any of that so I like the fact I took a different path. I quite like that it’s a different way.
• I really do enjoy playing love storylines; it’s something I’m quite fascinated with at the moment, the sort of psychological side of it, falling in love, what it feels like at that age.
• I’m useless at going on dates. One guy took me to a bar once and I lasted half an hour before I had to ring my mum to get me out of there. I find it awkward and I don’t know the rules.
• It’s a beautiful experience to lose yourself in a character and to learn to respect them and understand them and hate them sometimes. That’s, to me, what this job is and what I love.
• I could never play just the girlfriend or the conquest or the two-dimensional female roles at all. I was raised by my mother alone. She’s one of the strongest women in the world. So for me, it’s very, very important to show it — and especially that young girls can be inspirational; they can be strong and they can do stuff with their lives.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

• I’ve been really lucky with the people that I’ve worked with. And I’ve been tremendously lucky with the types of characters that I’ve had to play. But it’s very clear that there are less roles for women than there are for men.… It’s a very crowded pool and a lot of the scripts that are really great are coming to quite a number of us [female actresses] and you have to fight for it.