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.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else.

My God, I'm so in love with my boyfriend.

I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy . . . But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.