I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

What is wrong with you people?

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Strength was not how fiercely one punched, but instead, how one would summon the courage to take a blow for someone else.

Before the state of stress or depression comes some frequent negative interpretations of one's experiences.

Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.