'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I can't live without my iPhone.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.