A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

Adversities define what you're made of. Success is you're reward for overcoming them

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.