American Quotes

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.