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" I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying. "

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" I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet. "

" I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing. "

" I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me. "

" Not being happy really is my fear. "

" I've been keeping journals since I was 13. "

" Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love. "

" When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli. "

" I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful. "

" I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was. "

" The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it. "

" Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people. "

" Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are. "

" I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me. "

" Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts. "

" I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life. "

" I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.' "

" You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on. "

" Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially. "

" I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want. "

" I love watching YouTube makeup tutorials of girls who are so brave and show others how to blend in foundation on blemish-prone skin. I've considered creating my own YouTube tutorial for other girls just to show that everyone has these problems. "

" I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be. "

" My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends. "

" If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people. "

" I'm working on a movie called 'Virgin Mary' with Abigail Breslin. I'm also in 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.' And I have a television movie coming on Nickelodeon that I worked on with Nick Cannon. I acted in it, but I am more excited about being a producer! "

" I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes. "

" My real name is Lauren. "

" I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. "

" I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it. "

" Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am. "

" Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did. "