“If you follow your heart, you’re never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.”

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I don’t expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that’s the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don’t care at all.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.

This weird thing happens when you’re in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they’ll be good for your career. It’s not about the project’s integrity or anything like that.

I don’t believe in censorship.

One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

I think we want to be around people that kind of push us and inspire us and maybe teach us.

There’s no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don’t know about something that means the world to you.

If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I think it’s ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that’s the only way anybody else is going to.

Just don’t hold back. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

We can’t play if we are ill or not completely fit.

I think you can never be a complete player.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Love me like you know you will never completely have me.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.

Done is better than perfect.

I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.