I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

One mark of good verse is surprise

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.