In an interview with Entertainment Weekly for her upcoming teen comedy Easy A, Emma Stone talks about what her life was like before hitting it big with movies like Superbad and Zombieland:

I used to do six auditions a week. It was brutal, but it was so important. I had mental breakdowns probably every three months. And every time I would have a bawling-on-the-floor fit, my mom would say, ‘Do you want to go home?’ And every time, no matter how upset I was, I was like, ‘No way!’ There was that perseverance in me. It’s not that I was better than the other kids. I was just obsessed.