I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

I like to take a character and develop it

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

It's going to be okay. Donny doesn't know it yet, but he just picked a fight with the wrong bunch of guys." -- Julian Darcangelo

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants!

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.