It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.
I followed my dreams and went to Hollywood. My mom was like, 'Wait a minute - I thought you were going to be a lawyer.' I said, 'You know what, Mom? You're going to have to see me play one on TV.'
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.
You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.
A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.
My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.
I don't read reviews anymore.
I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.
I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.
When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Just because somebody says no doesn't mean that you have to listen. You can do what you think is right.
Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
