I've always thought that I've been strong in what I believe in. Not that I know what I believe for absolutely everything, but the things that I do believe, it's very black and white, and yes and no.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

I'm all about what happens organically. If something happens, it was meant to happen.

I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm at a weird spot because I look so young and I feel young, but I'm not young.

Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.

Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.