It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.

Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?