I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.

It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.