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" I feel like there's this great balance between me being an actress and traveling around and doing all this great stuff but, also, me being the regular teenager, like going to Disneyland with friends and just hanging out. "

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" I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you. "

Storm Reid

Surround Yourself

Yourself

Good

" Ms. Oprah Winfrey gave me some advice to just always stay in the moment, and don't waste energy on negative things, and put your energy into positive things in your life. I just try to remember that every day and keep on going. "

" Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me as a little black girl, too. "

" You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out. "

" I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl in the book. "

" When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free. "

" My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school. "

Storm Reid

School

" 'Matilda' is my favorite movie of all time. It's so funny. It's about this girl who's so independent and smart, and she has to learn how to get through all these challenges she faces, and she gets through them all so well. "

" I live by faith and not sight. "

" I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it. "

" Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged. "

" To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself. "

" I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her. "

" Nothing's impossible, because in the word 'impossible,' it says, 'I'm possible.' Always know that no matter what, you can always do it, and don't let anybody tell you differently. "

" I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired. "

" I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference. "

" I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended. "

" My life is centered around God and faith. "

" We have good food in Los Angeles, but it's not as good as Atlanta food. "

" It's just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and you rock, and you can conquer the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are, and your flaws are nothing, and you're awesome. "

" I'm grateful for my family and my peers. "

" I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need. "

Storm Reid

Family

Need

" My mom - she doesn't care if I stop acting tomorrow; she just wants the best for me. "

" I didn't think I would be 14, or 13 at the time, and be a lead in a role, but I think everything happens for a reason. "

" Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing. "

" I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart. "

" Representation is everything. "

Storm Reid

Representation

Everything

" We just have to get over the fact that, yes, people are not going to be the same. They're not going to look the same, they're not going to have the same opinions because we're all unique. "

" If you're not represented, then sometimes you might not feel hopeful and don't feel like you can do something that other people are doing when you're just as worthy as they are. "

" I hope I just keep continuing to inspire a lot of people and trying to make a change in this world. "