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.

It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume that's impossible. So when that happens it's a cool thing.

It's not hard for me to figure out who I like or who my friends are. I trust my energy meter, but I'm also not afraid to let people in who might hurt me.

People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, 'No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.'

People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother's clothes, dude!

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are

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