Amandla Stenberg Quotes

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

I love the romance in Kimberly Derting's 'The Body Finder.' 'Cold Kiss' by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching - and about so much more than just romantic love.

I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang of kids from the wrong side of the tracks in Sixties Oklahoma. I grew up in the Eighties in Nottinghamshire, but this tale of troubled, but essentially good, kids - or 'greasers' - was something I completely connected with.

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about two years. Went to school with all rich kids. I was the only poor kid in the school, and I was already insecure. But my voice saved me because I sang in school, and I was real popular because of my voice.

'Peeples' is definitely not 'Meet the Parents'. It's more a movie about family secrets. It does explore class issues somewhat, but it's mostly about living your own truth.

With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special.

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century.