In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Do your own thing; always follow your dreams and don't feel limited by what someone prescribes to you as to what you should do. Expand your horizons, try new things, be adventurous.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

I play so young because of my looks.

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.