As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

I like wearing my dads sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn’t choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation.

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.

I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.

It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.