I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

If we can't solve the problem, resolve the difference, then embrace the diversity, bring the silence, time will solve the problem and peace will prevail.

I don't hate you. I love you and adore you because you are so innocent you don't know what you are doing.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips.

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.