Quotes from Hilary Duff

I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.'

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.

What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.