Quotes from Leighton Meester

A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.

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

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that ' but not realizing what that was.

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

I'm proud of the work that I've done. I don't care what people label me as.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

I want an identity outside of my work.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.