I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.

Never look back. If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe she would have never found her prince.

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.

What makes you different is what makes you beautiful

I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

But I'm not dead, " Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.