“The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.”

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don’t conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn’t change that for anybody.

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade – whatever you want to call it!

I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique.

My philosophy with my career is mostly to just mix it up with a little bit of everything in moderation. And that’s what makes my job so great.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

I don’t have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don’t have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

Don’t worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.

Is that I get to constantly do different things, put on different hats, be different people, and mixing up the genre really lends itself to that.

Whether it’s teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There’s something really cool about that.

Whereas if you have the chance to create and produce your next movie that keeps you busier, it gives you more options and hopefully enables you to make the type of movies you’re passionate about.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something.

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it’s not quite like you, if you know what I mean… it’s almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy – whether it’s going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other – those always make the most memorable dates!

I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.

When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.

When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.