I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.