I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?

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When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.

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It's cool that people enjoy my work. That's fun for me that people, like going to my movies and enjoy all the hard work that everyone put into it. I think that's the biggest reward, to know that everyone enjoyed the movies with me.

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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

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My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

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It's hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

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People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

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You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.

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I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

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I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

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My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.

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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.

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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

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I'm grateful to have been acting for as long as I have because I have so many experiences and memories, and I've gotten to learn from some of the greatest actors, directors, writers and cinematographers. I feel like my career has been a privilege. I can't imagine my life without it.

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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

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People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them tell you -- nobody wants to be alone.

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