I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness; it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help.

When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.

'Liv and Maddie' actually started out as a different show called 'Bits and Pieces,' and it was a completely different plot, although it was the same cast.

I'm never not planning for my future house. Most of the files on my laptop are devoted to different rooms in my dream house. I'm embarrassing.

I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

I love women. I love celebrating women.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

Samuel L. Jackson is such a riot. He's so incredibly normal, and he's a blast to be around. I can't even describe to you how he's just sort of everybody's crazy uncle.

I was a huge show-choir girl!

I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

My writers on 'Liv And Maddie' have started a running joke to try and sneak as many 'literally's into the script as they can to throw me.

The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.

'Liv and Maddie' is very near and dear to my heart. I'm very proud of it.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it's true.

Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.

Your average teenager can't relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

I'm very competitive and academic.

I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.

It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Playing two people is definitely difficult, but it's made possible by everyone around me, and it's a big team effort.

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers.

My absolute favorite thing about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is my cast and crew: the people that I spend almost every hour of every day with.

The whole novelty and challenge of playing twins is something that has kept things wonderfully fresh for me. Just the pure joy and freedom of being able to explore so many facets of not just one, but two, different characters at once is a very singular experience.