If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

I like to do a lot of cardio.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

I love pink, it's so girly!

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Don’t live in regret over missed opportunities, for if you do, you will miss even more.

The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

The only wealth is life.

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.