I think I'm probably more passionate about acting now than when I was a kid. When I was young, I didn't know what I was doing.

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.

Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution.

In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!

The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

I have N'Sync and Aerosmith and Britney Spears. I have a trifecta from hell.