Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.

Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

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

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago.

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

You know what? I don't care. I'm going to do what I want to do.

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.

There's nothing weak about being subject to something.

Things don't happen for no reason.

Why is everything so easy for me?

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.

My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.