I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

Some times it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

And he, he himself, the Grinch - carved the roast beast.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane.

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.