It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

My family and school life are important to me.

People have good and bad days.

I was an international studies major.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring.

I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.

With time we will all stop fighting pimples and start fighting wrinkles.

For you, it’s all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!

Boredom is a great motivator.