Quotes from Leighton Meester

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Enjoy your life and put a smile on your face, no matter how hard it may seem.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I don't even think about fame at all.

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.