Vanessa Quotes

Youth is a question of energy.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

I have three closets in my bedroom.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

If you're someone that people look up to, they're gonna always find a way to bring you down.

You keep learning all the time.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw them out - I don't know where to put everything.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.