“Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You’ve just got to learn that if I don’t say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it’s not true.”

You are who you surround yourself with.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

The people who put you down don’t have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

I believe in second chances, but I don’t believe in third or fourth chances.

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

Haters can keep on hating.

I attempt to be who I am and it’s fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I’m doing can be a little crazy.

I’m no beauty queen, I’m just beautiful me.

I did gain weight, but I don’t care.

I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school. Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive. But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way.

Things I’ve been doing in quarantine- settling into my new house and guitar lessons.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he’d get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who’s not in the business.

I’d love to do my own music for sure. I’d love to have a band.

I gotta get you out my head now. I just cut you off.

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a ‘Like,’ by a comment. That does not define you.

We’ve spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

When I got cast in ‘Rocky IV,’ I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.

I treat the camera like a person – I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

When you’re in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there’s no difference.