Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.