I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.