Vanessa Quotes

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

If there's a spotlight on you, people are going to look for a reason to bring you down.

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.

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.

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.

You have to always remember to be yourself.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

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

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

Even when something does not go my way, I get up and fight, that is what keeps me going.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

I love what I do and I am surrounded by some incredible people.

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

I'm becoming more adventurous.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

If I'm singing, I'm happy - that's what I've learned about myself.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush

We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.

Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

People are so much more fascinated by the royal family generally than in England.

For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

I visualized high school as being like ‘Saved By the Bell.’

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.