Chloe Grace Moretz Quotes

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.

I can't do anything in moderation.

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

I talk too much. I eat too much.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.